MPA Race Equality Scheme 2005-2008

• Monitoring those training courses thatlead to advancement of officers.• Strengthening relationships with allstaff associations.• Organisational performance,management and culture.• Tackling institutional racism.Monitoring the continuedimplementation of the StephenLawrence Inquiry Report.• Rooting out racial harassment,bullying and discrimination within theservice, particularly at local level.• Ensuring an appropriate minimumlevel of training in equalities anddiversity issues for all new recruitsand a familiarisation programme forinduction to new communities.• Monitoring the effectiveness of theDiversity Training (CRR) programmeand its impact on the policing servicecorporately as well as at BOCU andOCU levels.2. Operational policing, communityeducation, engagement, trust andconfidence.• Building trust and confidence in localcommunities by capacity building ofagencies and organisations. UsingRacial Equality Councils (RECs), forexample, that already have goodcommunity contact and interface topromote trust and confidence issues.• Developing consultation whichreaches disaffected communities andincreases community confidence.• Measuring for and tacklingdisproportionality in service deliveryon issues of high community concerne.g. stop and search, deaths incustody.• Reducing levels of hate crime. Settingup structures for working with localagencies through multi-agency groupsand arrangements in consultation withlocal borough community safety units.• Promoting service delivery to ensurethat all the people of London canexpect the same standard of policingacross all boroughs.• Progressing HMIC’s reportrecommendations dealing withdiversity.• Improving access to information andfront counter services.• Involving communities and parents inaddressing crime and helping them tohelp themselves.• Supporting schools in tackling racialharassment, social exclusion andbullying between pupils.3. Financial and budgetary accountabilityand decision-making and their impacton policing a diverse community.• Continued monitoring of diversitybudgets at BOCU and OCU levelsand mainstreaming of race equalitybeyond the Diversity Directorate,particularly in boroughs.• Reviewing the role and objectives ofthe MPS Diversity Board.• Strengthening working relationshipsthrough the MPA and other agenciesto improve race equality andcommunity safety.• Demonstrating greater accountabilityin the management of the DiversityDirectorate budget.• Promoting competition andconsideration of equalities contractcompliance and (e)quality assurancemeasures in all areas of procurement.46