The ‘the evolving concept of institutional racism’ (Grieve and French, 2000, p. 9) appears to have adapted to race related political correctness which is being increasingly enforced within the police alongside policies which aim to provide a better working environment for minority ethnic officers (Holdaway and O’Neill, 2006). Institutional racism has been described as ‘the stuff that gets into the bloodstream of the organisation’ (Holdaway and O’Neill, 2007, p. 397) as opposed to what can be viewed or heard on the surface. In another form, it is not necessarily explicitly portrayed (Rowe, 2008).
