As Independent Chair of the Avon and Somerset Lammy Group, Desmond Brown is reviewing institutional racism in the police and wider criminal justice system.
Against a politically charged backdrop of recent unrest, and the toppling of the statue of slaver Edward Colston in 2020, the outcome of the Police and Crime Commissioner election on May 6th is under the spotlight.
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