Race and Faith issues in the Metropolitan Police Service: Let us know your views

The Metropolitan Police Authority is conducting a Race and Faith Inquiry to understand the experiences of black and ethnic minority staff and officers within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). We need to understand if this impacts on community confidence in policing the capital.

For policing in London to be successful, the MPS needs the trust and confidence of all communities. The service has invested significantly in promoting equality and diversity within the organisation but, despite achievements, there is more work to be done.

The deadline for responses to the consultation was 15 April 2009.

The Inquiry panel would like to thank everyone who responded.

Please note that the consultation ‘Let us know your views’ is intended to give a flavour of how MPS employment issues affect Londoners and to do so in a way that allows us to establish why Londoners are concerned about these issues and what in their view needs to be done.

It must be remembered that ‘Let us know your views’ is self selecting and is therefore not intended as a statistically representative view of the population nor should it be seen as a valid 'popular vote'.

The data obtained will not only support the evidence gathering process with a more in depth understanding of how the issues affect community confidence in policing but will give us insight into other related areas. For example: there may be areas that are thought to be police related but are outside the police jurisdiction or there may be areas of joint partnership identified.

It could be possible that a single suggestion could highlight an issue that has been previously overlooked.

Reporting on the results will take account of the restrictions of the methodology behind the survey. We will also comment on any suspected 'lobbying effects' on the data. It must be remembered that identification of bias and lobbying will be more of an art than a science as demographic data is not compulsory nor verifiable.

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