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68 Police J. 32 (1995)
Police Training on Community and Race Relations: The Role oft he Specialist Support Unit

handle is hein.journals/policejl68 and id is 34 raw text is: DR ROBIN OAKLEY Academic Adviser, Home Office Specialist Support Unit POLICE TRAINING ON COMMUNITY AND RACE RELATIONS: THE ROLE OF THE SPECIALIST SUPPORT UNIT Introduction This paper summarizes the role of the independent Specialist Support Unit (SSU) which has been established by the Home Office to assist police training in England and Wales to become more responsive to the needs of a multi-cultural, multi-racial society. The unit's main functions are to run specialist training courses for police training staff on issues of community and race relations, and to provide advice and practical assistance to police training establishments on how these issues can be incorporated more effectively into training at local, regional and national levels. Background Following the disturbances in London and other British cities in 1981, Lord Scarman's report on The Brixton Disorders identified a need for improvements in police training on community and race relations (CRR). The Police Training Council (PTC) established aWorking Party, including representation from the minority ethnic communities, which produced a report in 1983 entitled Community and Race Relations Training for the Police. This report set out a whole series of recommendations designed to ensure that CRR should become an integral part of all police training, and not just an additional lesson topic or subject for specialist concern. The PTC report set out a series of principles on which all such training should be based. It stressed that all officers should receive such training throughout their careers, and that this should be related directly to the roles and practical tasks that they are required to carry out. It also stressed that training should address attitudes and skills as well as providing information. It advocated that the training should be mainly carried out by police officers, but these police trainers would need to be specially trained, and lay contributors from the minority communities should be involved in the training also. Initial support centre at Brunel University To assist with this development, the PTC report proposed the creation of a specialist training support centre, to be located independently of the police service. The centre was established by the Home Office at Brunel University in West London in 1983. This Centre for the Study of The Police Journal January 1995

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