Description: Controversial BBC documentary exposing first hand evidence of racism in the British police, and revealing how much it has been driven underground since a government inquiry four years ago branded the force "institutionally racist." Undercover BBC journalist Mark Daly joined the Greater Manchester Police as a trainee, and infiltrated Bruche Police Training Centre in Warrington, Cheshire for several months until his cover was blown. His fellow officers were unaware that their colleague was, in fact, an undercover journalist who was trying to discover if racism lurked among their ranks. He was eventually arrested on suspicion of obtaining a pecuniary advantage of deception and damaging police property. Even before the documentary was broadcast on the BBC, the story created a furor. There were press reports of the British government and police trying to stop the documentary-the Home Secretary called it a "stunt' which intended "to create, not report" the story; and four police officers were suspended. The day after the documentary aired in Britain, five officers resigned and three more were suspended from duty. And nine days after the broadcast, the Commission for Racial Equality-the Government's race watchdog-announced a thorough, branch-by-branch, official investigation into police racism. (<<)

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