West Yorkshire Police would like to invite you to an Online community engagement event to raise awareness of the Police Race Action Plan

Thursday 25 August, 6pm – 8:30pm

About this event

West Yorkshire Police would like to invite you to an Online community engagement event to raise awareness of the Police Race Action Plan which will provide an opportunity for communities to discuss and feedback their thoughts and contributions for the second iteration of the plan (due to be published in December 2022)

The Police Race Action Plan sets out the changes policing intends to achieve to improve outcomes for Black people working within or interacting with policing.

Policing has a difficult history in its relationships with Black communities. The overt racism many of the Windrush generation experienced included policing. The Scarman report, following the 1981 riots across England’s major cities, identified the harmful impact of policing on Black Britain.

We accept that policing still contains racism, discrimination and bias. We are ashamed of those truths, we apologise for them and we are determined to change them. We have much to do to secure the confidence of Black people, including our own staff, and improve their experience of policing – and we will. We will be held to account and we welcome scrutiny.

It is vital that Black communities have a genuine voice and influence in the oversight, shaping and scrutiny of the police service, and by ensuring that we achieve our commitment to create an anti-racist police service that’s defined by a culture of zero tolerance towards racism

Please register via: Police Race Action Plan: Improving Policing for Black People Tickets, Thu 25 Aug 2022 at 18:00 | Eventbrite

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