Race and Equality
The Race Relations (Amendment) Act places a legal duty on a wide range of public authorities, including the police, to promote race equality.
This is referred to as the general duty:
The general duty
The general duty to promote race equality is to:
Eliminate unlawful discrimination
Promote equality of opportunity
Promote good race relations between persons of different racial groups
The duty is not optional and must be met regardless of the size of the ethnic minority populations.
The specific duties
The Act also outlines a number of specific duties which must be met. These include:
Producing a Race Equality Scheme every three years – this is a three year action plan of what we are going to do to meet the general duty, as well as our arrangements for meeting the specific duties.
Collecting, monitoring (by racial group) and publishing annual data with regard to certain aspects of our employment, training and services
Consulting on and assessing the impact of our proposed policies and monitoring our existing policies.
Publishing the results of these assessments and consultation.
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Your Voice Counts
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- Useful contacts - A list of some useful contacts.
- Reporting crime - You have the right to live free from harassment, as does any other person in this country.
- Get involved - Merseyside Police are currently looking at everything we do and how we do it, to make sure we are complying with the duties outlined in the Race Relat...
- Hate crime - Merseyside Police has a specialist team, Sigma, to investigate hate crime across the county.
- What is a racist incident? - A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person.
