Police chief pledges to tackle racists

THE Metropolitan Police chief has vowed to become an “implacable enemy” of racists at Scotland Yard after admitting the force needs to “buck up its ideas”.

Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe also said inquiries into ten allegations of racism against the force would be finished within four weeks.

The police chief was on a radio show when he received a call from the brother of black bus driver Kester David, whose suspicious death in 2010 is to be reinvestigated by the force.

Roger David said: “The police have to start from the top and go right down to the bottom and make sure that they get rid of, eliminate, any racial discrimination.” Mr Hogan-Howe said: “I agree with him. I do hear us and sometimes others saying that the diversity of London means that we have a bigger challenge.”