Stop and search ‘makes it harder to hire black police officers’

Peer warns racial profiling is thwarting measures to boost diversity of force in Britain

Attempts to recruit more black police officers are being made 10 times" harder by the racial profiling by police, according to experts behind a government-funded recruitment programme.

Lord Woolley, former chair of the government's Race Disparity Unit, said that recruitment was being compromised by the continued criminalisation of young black men for minor crimes, such as cannabis possession, and the racial disproportionality of measures like stop and search.