Metropolitan Police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe revealed plans to install CCTV cameras in police vans during an interview with the London Evening Standard on Friday. He also said 400 police cars will carry fingerprint scanners to enable suspects to be checked on the spot.
Mr Hogan-Howe said the Met had reviewed all racism complaints against officers but that only around 2% of around 14,000 complaints had a race dimension.
“I want to make it very clear that any racist will find me an implacable enemy,” Mr Hogan-Howe told the Evening Standard. “But equally, those who try to use race maliciously or to defend criminal action or do so for political reasons, will also find me an implacable enemy.”