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 aboutthe 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:
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)
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)
Inquiry
The Macpherson Report: twenty-two years on
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)