IT appears that the racism that runs through the Metropolitan Police has spread to North Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire Police have been found by an employment tribunal to have subjected an officer to ‘unconscious race discrimination’ as well as two instances of ‘direct discrimination’ due to his Pakistani ethnic origin (“Officer wins police race tribunal case”, The Press, May 11).

I used to know quite a number of police officers in York and I never heard one of them come out with a racist comment. It must occur the higher up they go in their career - a career progression denied Zaheer Ahmed solely because of his ethnicity.

In the month and the 25th year after the callous murder of Stephen Lawrence we have our Prime Minister honouring him and his family by naming the day of his murder Stephen Lawrence Day.

In the same month, the Windrush scandal hit our media headlines.

Before our Prime Minister was handed the keys to Number 10 she spent about six years as Home Secretary during which she set in motion a large amount of legislation to create a ‘hostile environment’ which made life difficult for genuine British citizens who just happened to be black, threatening them with deportation and refusing them the ability to work.

Let’s kick racism out of politics, the police, sport, life and society everywhere.

HF Perry,

St James Place,

Dringhouses, York