independent race and refugee news network


	Topics

Government policy

Policing and criminal justice system

Violence and harassment

Asylum seekers and refugees

Education

Media

Employment

Extreme-Right politics

Features

Statistics and definitions

Quiz

Schools against deportations

Reclaiming the struggle

Far-Right in Europe

Spotlight on Manchester police force

By Liz Fekete

1 March 1995

Campaigners are demanding a public inquiry into police racism throughout the Greater Manchester area following a series of well-publicised cases.

Since a former constable in the force made allegations of racism, three officers from the Community Affairs Department have been charged with disciplinary offences. A Special Branch officer in the Manchester police force has also been transferred to uniform duties after he was found to have altered pictures and a news story to 'spoof' a colleague from the Middle East. Another policeman was fined two days pay after he was found to have made racist remarks about a mixed race prisoner in front of a black colleague.

Guardian 22.11.94, Manchester Evening News 23, 24.11.94

privacy | using our content | advertising | support us