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Police chief warns anti-white bias claims could drive UK policing ‘back to 60s’

The Guardian · Jun 3, 2026, 9:09 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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Senior police figures are pushing back against politicians they accuse of stoking tensions over Henry Novak’s murder Policing could be driven back to the 1960s by false claims officers are biased against white people, the leader of Britain’s black officers has said.Ch Insp Andy George, president of the National Black Police Association, spoke out amid growing concerns that politicians such as Nigel Farage were stoking tensions around the murder of teenager Henry Nowak by making baseless and provocative claims. Continue reading...

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Police chief warns anti-white bias claims could drive UK policing ‘back to 60s’

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