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Re: So much so for the police stamping out racism
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The country's most senior Asian police officer has accused his own force of racial discrimination.
Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur is preparing a legal case against the Metropolitan Police.
• A failure to renew his five-year contract - due to end in March 2009 - when other officers of a similar level have had theirs renewed.
• Being sidelined by Commissioner Sir Ian Blair who has allegedly excluded him from key Olympic security planning meetings.
• That he was allegedly browbeaten to keep quiet about his reservations that new laws to detain terror suspects for 42 days were unnecessary.
Commander Shabir Hussain, 45, claimed he was passed over for promotion by Sir Ian an "unprecedented" four times.
Speaking at a London employment tribunal on Tuesday, he said: "My face did not fit and did not fit because I am not white."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7473821.stm
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