Key facts
- Ministers will scrap 'two-tier' race-bias rules for police.
- The rules previously instructed officers to treat white people differently.
- The Anti-Racism Commitment told officers not to be 'colour blind'.
The UK government is set to dismantle controversial 'two-tier' race-bias rules that were applied to police officers. Ministers have acknowledged that it is incorrect to instruct officers to treat individuals differently based on their race, specifically mentioning white people. These rules were part of the 'Anti-Racism Commitment', which explicitly advised officers against being 'colour blind'. Successive Home Secretaries had previously dismissed concerns raised about this policy.