Police plan to boost morale

Osprey has helped to develop a morale-boosting initiative for the Metropolitan Police Service, reeling in the aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence fiasco. The aim is to show policemen how to improve their reputation.

The initiative, called Policing Diversity, is intended to “enable the Met to deal effectively with the increasingly diverse needs of Londoners”. It uses the slogan – “protect and respect”.

The introduction to one pamphlet reads: “There have been question marks over the ability of the Met to provide an effective service in terms of the investigation and prevention of racially motivated crime… The Diversity Strategy seeks to address these issues.”