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The Macpherson Report: twenty-two years on

Inquiry

The Home Affairs Committee has confirmed its intention to complete its predecessors’ work on The Macpherson Report:  twenty years on, and will take new evidence on policing and race including on concerns raised about the policing of the Covid-19 lockdown and reported disproportionality in fines and investigations of individuals from BME communities.

In 2020 the Committee has also held two one-off evidence sessions which are relevant to this inquiry:

Police ethnic diversity and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners on 11 March 2020

The work of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service on 8 July 2020 

Read the call for evidence for more detail about the inquiry

Reports, special reports and government responses

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Third Report - The Macpherson Report: Twenty-two years on
Inquiry The Macpherson Report: twenty-two years on
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Response to this report
First Special Report - The Macpherson Report: twenty-two years on: Government Response to the Committee’s Third Report of Session 2021–22
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First Special Report - The Macpherson Report: twenty-two years on: Government Response to the Committee’s Third Report of Session 2021–22
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Oral evidence transcripts

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22 July 2020
Inquiry The Macpherson Report: twenty-two years on
Witnesses Inspector Dan Popple (Inspector at West Midlands Police), PC Adam Ahmed (Leicestershire Police), Bishop Derek Webley (Co-Chair at Windrush Cross-Government Working Group), Pastor Lorraine Jones (Founder and CEO at Dwayne Simpson Foundation CIC), and Sayce Holmes-Lewis (Founder and CEO at Mentivity)
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8 July 2020
Work Work of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (Regular evidence sessions), and The Macpherson Report: twenty-two years on (Inquiry)
Witnesses Dame Cressida Dick DBE QPM (Commissioner at Metropolitan Police), and Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball (Assistant Commissioner for Professionalism at Metropolitan Police)
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24 June 2020
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Witnesses Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt QPM (Chair at National Police Chiefs' Council), and Chief Constable Ian Hopkins QPM (Lead for Workforce Representation and Diversity at National Police Chiefs' Council)
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Written evidence

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Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MAC0057)
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Metropolitan Police Service (MAC0056)
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Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (MAC0055)
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