236 officers in Met racism allegations
A total of 549 police officers are being investigated following accusations of racism from members of the public.
Another 42 officers have been accused of racism by colleagues.
The Met accounts for 43 per cent of the cases with 223 officers accused, and 13 facing internal allegations. Offences include wrongly searching people, racist and religious jokes, racist emails and racist language in interviews.
The figures, from a Freedom of Information request, come 10 years after the Met was accused of being ginstitutionally racisth in the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry. Stephenfs mother Doreen rejected claims by Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson that racism had stopped.
She said: gUnless you admit something needs fixing youfre not going to be able to fix it.h A Met spokesman said the figures involved a fraction of the Metfs 53,000 police officers and staff.
¡ Charities including the NSPCC and Amnesty International have criticised plans to close the Metfs human trafficking unit. They have written to Sir Paul saying specialist policing is needed to help victims trafficked for sex, labour, and domestic servitude.
