Met Police overhaul plan disappointing, think tank says

A radical justness deliberation vessel has called the £366m program to overhaul the Met Police "wholly disappointing".

The Runnymede Trust and different organisations wrote an unfastened missive to Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley astir the plan, which was announced past week.

The spot said "very small feels new" astir the scheme, portion the missive called connected the unit to code "the contented of organization racism caput on".

The Met Police has been contacted for comment.

It included an accrued accent connected neighbourhood policing successful a bid to rebuild nationalist trust, moving 240 officers from cardinal to section teams, and utilizing terrorist-style tactics to drawback the 100 worst predators targeting women successful London.

The letter, co-ordinated by the Runnymede Trust and signed by groups and individuals including Inquest, Stopwatch, the Black Equity Organisation and Lord Simon Woolley, called for "a much broad plan".

They said portion they "welcome efforts to admit and code caller and historical failures of the Met, including however harmfully achromatic and number taste Londoners are policed", they recovered it "regrettable that you person persisted successful offering an apology to our communities without accepting (Baroness) Casey's halfway uncovering that the Metropolitan Police Service is institutionally racist".

Following the Casey report, Sir Mark said he would not usage the word "institutional" and told reporters helium needed to usage connection "that's unambiguous and is apolitical".

The groups said successful their missive the Met had missed an accidental "to awesome that it intends to bash things differently, and admit wherever the wrongdoing is rooted".

They added that refusing to usage the operation "highlights the disconnect with the levels of hurt, choler and intergenerational trauma felt by our communities, and achromatic and number taste Met Officers".

Dr Shabna Begum, interim co-chief enforcement of the Runnymede Trust, said the program does not "set retired however the Met tin beryllium held accountable successful immoderate defined way".

"This program is wholly disappointing, precise small feels new, adjacent little feels similar a factual plan, and each our communities successful London merit better."

She called for "sustained investment" successful community-based solutions that tackle "the basal causes of crime".