The NBPA Vision
The National Black Police Association (NBPA) will work in the interests of the UK police services and be an integral partner to ensure equitable service for all, and for the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff who we represent.
We will also advocate the needs and expectations of BME communities by delivering and supporting strategies and initiatives which have a positive impact on all.Twitter: NBPAUK
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Mission
The National Black Police Association seeks to improve the working environment of Black staff by protecting the rights of those employed within the Police Service and to enhance racial harmony and the quality of service to the Black community of the United Kingdom.
LATEST NEWS
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Race and the Criminal Justice System – Black Staff Networks present case to The United Nations
Posted on 20/04/2012 | No CommentsThe National Black Police Association (NBPA) along with network Coleagues from across the Criminal Justice System (CJS) meet on Monday 23 April in a Symposium focussing on statitistics on race and the CJS (section 95 data) The symposium will bring together the leadership of the BME Staff Networks and a representative of United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). Further information is available via this link;- Symposium information -
Ex-Cleveland PC Sultan Alam wins £800,000 damages package
Posted on 16/04/2012 | No CommentsA former Cleveland policeman who was “stitched up” by fellow officers and wrongfully jailed has received £800,000 in compensation. Sultan Alam, 48, had already received £400,000 in damages from Cleveland Police. A hearing has now agreed a figure for loss of future earnings, bringing the total to £800,000. Mr Alam was jailed for 18 months in 1996 for conspiracy to steal car parts, but was cleared in 2007. He served half his sentence and carried on his legal battle while working as a taxi driver. A civil case, which ended in January, heard that Mr Alam was “stitched up” by... -
![The National Black Police Association [NBPA] welcomes the appearance of The MPS Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe at the Home Affairs Select Committee. We hope that the Commissioner will use this opportunity as a watershed moment and set out to the public his strategy for, first of all getting to grips with the nature and extent of racism both at the individual and structural level within the MPS. He has an opportunity to set out to the public, how the Met BPA and community organisations can play a role supporting him in bringing about lasting cultural change within the...](http://www.nbpa.co.uk/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Culture Change is needed in the whole of British Policing for the 21st Century")
Culture Change is needed in the whole of British Policing for the 21st Century
Posted on 16/04/2012 | No CommentsThe National Black Police Association [NBPA] welcomes the appearance of The MPS Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe at the Home Affairs Select Committee. We hope that the Commissioner will use this opportunity as a watershed moment and set out to the public his strategy for, first of all getting to grips with the nature and extent of racism both at the individual and structural level within the MPS. He has an opportunity to set out to the public, how the Met BPA and community organisations can play a role supporting him in bringing about lasting cultural change within the... -
Cameron told to look into police racism
Posted on 12/04/2012 | No CommentsThe Prime Minister David Cameron has been told by the National Black Police Association (NBPA) to get directly involved in the current debate about alleged racism in police forces, The call came as newly released data showed that while 120 Metropolitan Police officers had been found guilty of race discrimination since 1999, just one of them had been dismissed. NBPA president Charles Crichlow said in a letter to the Home Secretary Theresa May: “This issue has now taken on a greater national significance in terms of public trust and confidence in policing and the wider criminal justice system.... -
Police cannot restore trust over racism on their own, says chairman of Met Black Police Association, Bevan Powell
Posted on 10/04/2012 | No CommentsMark Townsend, home affairs editor guardian.co.uk, Saturday 7 April 2012 The police should not be trusted to tackle racism on their own, according to a senior officer who has called for government intervention to hold forces to account in the fight against discrimination. Following a spate of revelations concerning racism within Scotland Yard, the chairman of the Metropolitan police‘s Black Police Association said a pan-Whitehall group to restore trust between police and communities should be reintroduced. Bevan Powell said the organisation should be modelled on the Stephen Lawrence steering group, which was established in May 1999 after the Macpherson inquiry’s first recommendation into the black...
