Unjustified racial disparities in policing including recruitment and use of stop and search remain more than two decades after the landmark Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, MPs have found. The Home Affairs Committee is calling for 'urgent action' to address 'persistent, deep-rooted and unjustified racial disparities' in policing, arguing the current system for delivering on race equality is 'not working'. And following an inquiry which it said was not specific to any individual policing institution, the cross-party group of MPs added there has been a 'systematic failure on the part of the police service and Government, over many years, to take race inequality in policing seriously enough'.