LONDON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A top Asian officer of Britain's police planned says the country's anti-terror laws discriminate against Muslims, the Guardian reports.
Tarique Ghaffur, assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan Police, planned to make his views known in an address to the National Black Police Association in Manchester. The officer planned to call for "an independent judicial review" of why some young British Muslims turn to extremism, the report said.
The Guardian report said Ghaffur also planned to tell how racism had affected his own career.
Separately, the association's chairman Keith Jarrett was quoted as saying racism in police service "had not gone away."
He told Sky News, "The majority of the police service are decent, hard-working people who are not bigoted but the people who are bigoted will always be bigoted."
