The chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council and CEO of the College of Policing have provided the below update about how their commitment to take action on diversity, inclusion and concerns about racial inequalities will progress.

The brutal murders of three men who were enjoying a sunny day with friends in a Reading park was horrifying to us all.

A small working group of key NPCC leads, chief officers with experience of being people of colour within UK policing and the Chief Executive of the College of Policing have been considering the police response to concerns about racial injustice in the UK and in policing following the death of George Floyd in America and the global debate on racism.

The government have announced today that the amount of funding available to the policing system for 2020 to 2021 will increase by more than £1.1 billion.

I have every sympathy with those people trying to protect British Muslims against a rising tide of prejudice and hatred. 

The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and the National Police Chiefs’ Council have submitted a joint response to a Government consultation on unauthorised encampments calling for the shortage of transit sites and lack of accommodation provision to be addressed.

I’ve spent the last three decades in policing - as a uniformed officer, as a roads policing specialist, Cleveland’s first female armed response officer, and now as a chief constable. In that time I’ve seen a huge cultural shift in attitudes towards women in policing, from a culture where women were a tiny minority and were issued with a force handbag on joining, given a stockings allowance and told we were only allowed to wear trousers on nights, to one where women make up an integral and ever growing part of the service.

Arrests of children in England and Wales have fallen by 59 per cent over the last five years, according to figures gathered by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Data released today by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) shows that the use of police custody as a place of safety under mental health legislation has more than halved in one year.

Following increases in the reporting of hate crime and raised community tensions, the National Police Chiefs’ Council requested weekly returns from forces across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

While there is no specific intelligence relating to attacks against the Christian community in the UK, police are urging the community to be alert but not alarmed, report concerns to the police and review their security as a precaution.

We have seen a significant rise in the reporting of hate crime and urge victims to continue to come forward.