Police: Racial Discrimination

(asked on 3rd March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Inquest's report entitled I can’t breathe: Race, death & British policing, published on 20 February 2023, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the findings in that report.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 10th March 2023

Government is clear that all police use of force must be reasonable, proportionate and necessary and no-one should experience use of force based on their race or ethnicity.

Where a decision to use force is taken, officers are accountable through the law for their actions.

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