Asian police chief says: 'Muslims are radicalised'
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Assistant commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, of the Metropolitan Police, also said that the misuse of stop and search tactics and other tough anti-terrorist measures were at risk of criminalising minority communities. Mr Ghaffur called for an independent judicial inquiry yesterday into the radicalisation of young Muslims in the wake of the July 7 bombings in London last year.
In a speech to the National Black Police Association conference in Manchester, he said tighter anti-terror laws had indirectly discriminated against Muslims, while recent controversies over the Stockwell shooting and the Forest Gate counter-terror raid in London had eroded the "confidence and trust" of minority communities in the police service.
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