Minister calls for ‘transparency’ over criminals' ethnicity
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Minister calls for ‘transparency’ over criminals' ethnicity
Policing Minister Dame Diana Johnson says the government wants to be as “transparent and open as possible” following news that police are to make public the ethnicity and nationality of suspected criminals.
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