Will the publication of the College of Policing’s new Police Race Action Plan (2022), which aims to build “an anti-racist police service”, produce the catalyst for change that the police service both seeks and needs?

The Police Service is often criticised for its seeming inability to recognise the balance that needs to be struck between the use of stop and search to prevent crime and the adverse impact of its use on Black and Minority Ethnic Communities. Will the publication of the College of Policing’s new Police Race Action Plan (2022), which aims to build “an anti-racist police service”, produce the catalyst for change that the police service both seeks and needs?