Sir, You report that racism has raised its head again in the Metropolitan Police (Feb 17). In the late 1960s I was a serving officer at a northwest London police station. I was employed as a driver of an “area car”, mainly a vehicle to answer emergency calls. A black officer was attached to the station. He was very smart, keen and popular, and would tackle anything or anybody.
He was posted to the area car with me, for a month, to experience frontline police duties. One morning he suddenly told me that he was going to resign. I was quite taken aback as he had a future in the Met and I told him so.
He eventually explained, mainly because of my