Out of 120 COPS found guilty of racism... just one is sacked

In the decade since the damning Macpherson Report, 120 Metropolitan Police officers have been found guilty of racist behaviour, but just one has been dismissed, figures  reveal.
Despite the nature of the offences, only 12 officers received  written warnings and 21 received disciplinary sanctions, statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show.
Of the 21, eight had to pay a fine, six were forced to resign and there was the solitary dismissal.

Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey and commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe have both said they will not tolerate racism within the MET

The racism took place between 1999 and 2011 – the decade after the Macpherson Report branded the Met ‘institutionally racist’.
An inquiry by Channel 4 News, which uncovered the figures, found 79 of those found guilty were constables, 13 were sergeants, four were detective inspectors and four were detective chief inspectors or higher. Separate figures obtained by the Daily Mail show that 1,000 complaints of discrimination are made to forces across England and Wales every year.
But just one in 40 allegations, the vast majority of which are investigated by the forces themselves, leads to someone being punished.
In London alone, officers faced 1,339 allegations of racist behaviour over the past three years, with just 14 of the cases being upheld.
In many cases complaints are made by fellow employees after suffering derogatory remarks or overhearing unacceptable phrases.
Officers have been reported for calling colleagues ‘the token Asian’, using the phrase ‘the n***** in the woodpile’ and saying they are off to the ‘Paki shop’.
One Staffordshire PC was sacked after calling another officer’s partner a ‘Paki’ and then making comments about food in a fake foreign accent. In Bedfordshire, one officer was investigated after allegedly saying: ‘If you were being raped by a black man, I wouldn’t help you.’
Another branded a lawyer a ‘stupid ******g Asian defence lawyer’ and one remarked that an Asian family ‘are probably terrorists’.
A Bedfordshire Police spokesman admitted that none of the officers was sacked but said the incidents were ‘a matter of extreme regret’.

Out of 120 Metropolitan Police officers found guilty of racism, just one has been sacked

Three Hertfordshire officers were investigated for alleged racist comments over the past three years, including one who labelled people ‘Watford Wogadons’.
Another mimicked people from the Caribbean and a third was reported to his bosses after saying: ‘Does anybody want an ice lolly? I am going to the Paki shop.’ Hertfordshire Deputy Chief Constable Heather Valentine said: ‘We do not tolerate racism in any form, from officers or staff.’ None of the officers was sacked.
In Lancashire, a criminal suspect reported that an officer told him: ‘I know what Asians do and if any underage girl goes missing, we know where to go.’
In West Mercia, an officer was accused of linking Palestinian Islamist political party Hamas to the September 11 attacks.

One officer from Norfolk was given a written warning after he forwarded an email to colleagues with a comment about how Britain ‘will become an Islamic state by 2020’.

PC Alex MacFarlane was caught on a mobile phone telling a black teenager that he 'will always be n****r

In Nottinghamshire, an officer was disciplined after posting obscene racist abuse on a Facebook page about the quality of staff at a call centre in India.
A Thames Valley officer was fired after telling a colleague who was considering transferring elsewhere ‘they don’t want clever Pakis’.
In a peculiar case in Dyfed Powys an English person complained after an officer accused him of ‘going Welsh on me’.
In North Wales, an officer received a written warning for calling someone a ‘Welsh hick’.
Details of the complaints and racist language allegedly used were revealed in a series of Freedom of Information questions to which 34 forces responded.
Simon Reed, the vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: ‘It is right that the police service is accountable to the public it serves and that any  complaints made are investigated thoroughly and independently to ensure any wrongdoing is dealt with swiftly and appropriately.
‘However as these figures highlight, the vast majority of complaints made are found to have no substance to them and reflect the often hostile and confrontational situations police officers find themselves involved in.’