Chief constables under pressure to scrap 'two-tier' commitment to treating white people differently to other races amid fury at the treatment of Henry Nowak

The National Police Chiefs Council is under pressure over its claim that 'racial equity' should not mean 'treating everyone the same or being colour blind'.

Successive Home Secretaries had previously dismissed concerns about the controversial Anti-Racism Commitment which tells officers they should not be 'colour blind'.

Chief constables under pressure to scrap 'two-tier' commitment to treating white people differently to other races amid fury at the treatment of Henry Nowak

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said people should respond with 'pure cold rage' to Henry Nowak's treatment, which he claimed was evidence of a 'two-tier culture'.

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Data discredits claims reawakened by the death of Henry Nowak that UK police actions disadvantage white people