Metropolitan Police

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has informed the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service that it will carry out an investigation into unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation of employees by the Met.

It says its investigation is a response to longstanding concerns about the Met’s treatment of female, black and minority ethnic and gay officers, and follows the Central London Employment Tribunal’s recent findings in the case of Carol Howard v Metropolitan Police Service that the Met had discriminated against and victimised Ms Howard in contravention of the Equality Act 2010.

The Commission will decide whether the Met’s handling of complaints about discriminatory employment practices has broken equality law.

A report of the findings and recommendations for action will be published by the end of next year.

EHRC chief executive, Mark Hammond said: “This independent and transparent investigation will establish whether the Met’s procedures for handling employees’ complaints about discrimination comply with the law.”

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