Racism claim against force rejected

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A panel last week dismissed every strand of 45-year-old Commander Shabir Hussain's racial discrimination claim against the force and the Metropolitan Police Authority.

The employment tribunal's full judgment in the case has now been made public.

It concluded that the senior Asian officer was passed over for promotion four times between 2003 and 2006 because other candidates had more relevant experience or performed better than him at interview.

The panel also dismissed Mr Hussain's claims that the Met's top ranks were restricted to a chosen "golden circle" of a few white officers. They noted: "On the evidence provided to us we are not satisfied, and do not find, that there was such a golden circle."

If in fact there were such a circle, Mr Hussain was "as much a part of it as some of his rivals", the tribunal suggested.

But the Met's director of human resources, Martin Tiplady, came in for criticism in the judgment.

The panel said his evidence was "unsatisfactory" and noted he had been "unhelpful" towards Mr Hussain on various occasions.

Mr Hussain's claim accused Sir Ian, the Metropolitan Police Authority and its chairman Len Duvall of racial discrimination.

"My face did not fit and did not fit because I am not white," he told a hearing in Stratford, east London, in June.