The Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said the Metropolitan Police is no longer "institutionally racist" ahead of the 10th anniversary of a landmark report which made the claim.

Former commissioner of Metropolitan police says officers investigating death of teenager merely treated people in 'monochrome' way Sir Ian Blair, the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, today denied that the conduct of his force during the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation was racist. In comments likely to stoke tensions more than a decade after the Macpherson report rule...

“The Metropolitan Police is hypocritical on hate crimes. It allows homophobic singers to perform in London, but not racist ones. Racist artists are banned on the grounds that they are a threat to public order and good community relations. This is a case of double standards,” argues Peter Tatchell over at Comment Is Free, ahead

According to the latest figures published by the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), there are now 1,130 fewer full time warranted police officers working in London borough commands than there were last year. On March 31st 2010 there were 20,599 police officers working in the 32 London boroughs. According to the latest Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) figures, by July 2011 there were just 19,4...

Boris is launching an inquiry into allegations of racism at the Met Police from the Metropolitan Black Police Association. The Met BPA says that it will be discouraging black and asian people from applying to join the Met Police because of the “hostile and racist situation there”. Yes, so fucking hostile and racist that they allow a Black

Does the racist Metropolitan Black Police Association know of any white Police Officers who should have been suspended for inappropriate behaviour!?! "The MBPA said the current suspensions of Commander Ali Dizaei and Britain's most senior Muslim officer, Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, were proof that ethnic minority officers were treated less favourably than white staff." If anything...

Police who investigated the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence were not necessarily racist, Sir Ian Blair, the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, has told a new inquiry into race and faith issues in the force. Blair, who was engulfed in a racism row in his last days in office, said yesterday he did not "necessarily believe" officers had acted out of prejudice in dealings wi...

This site has been developed by the Metropolitan Police Service in association with the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London. It provides the public and researchers with free access to crime mappings of London. Users can enter a postcode to retrieve maps of levels of crime in their neighbourhood. These enable comparison of trends in burglary, robbery and vehicle crime in the area ...

Here: The news that Tory Immigration spokesman Damian Green has been arrested by the Metropolian Police and held on suspicion of "conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office" shows that the Metropolitan Police have lost all sense of both their own role, and the role of politicians. I've been saying for years now that the police are more interested in protecting the state than protecting the...

With Gary Dobson and David Norris starting life sentences, the mainstream media, Internet, and political elites are in overdrive, congratulating the Metropolitan police on a job well done; proclaiming we should rejoice, the Metropolitan Police is no longer the racist institution it once was.  After the life sentences, and 15 and 14 year tariffs were handed down by Justice Treacy, Twitter was ...