The report adopts as a key finding an admission made in a Guardian interviewby Martin Hewitt, the chair of the National Police Chiefsâ Council, that race undermines policingâs legitimacy and effectiveness. It also says confidence in the police is lower among some BAME communities than among white people, and that the gap is growing. Hewitt welcomed the report: â[The committeeâs] thorough report does justice to the significant impact that Sir William Macpherson has had on society since 1999. Since then, policing has changed, but as this report makes clear, not far or fast enough to secure the confidence of all communities and especially black people,â he said.