Black police paid less as ethnic pay gap widens, Met figures show

White officers get 1.80 an hour more than black and Asian peers, says study

The pay gap in the Metropolitan police between white officers and their black and Asian counterparts has widened in the past year despite promises to close the divide, new figures have shown.

A Met study of average wages found that black and Asian police officers working in London were paid 1.80 an hour less than their white colleagues last year, compared with 1.52 in 2017. All 37 senior officers on salaries of 100,000-plus were white, it found, while ethnic minority officers received fewer and smaller bonuses than their colleagues.