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By Liz Fekete

1 March 1995

The Home Office have reinstated a policeman who was sacked after it was shown that he attacked a black man with a truncheon.

Unpublished figures obtained by the Observer newspaper reveal that black people are four times more likely to make a complaint against the police yet have less than a 50 per cent chance of having complaints upheld.

Observer 27.11.94

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