Cooper welcomes guidance of criminal ethnicity

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says she “welcomes the guidance” where police forces have been told to share suspects' ethnicity and nationality with the public. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We welcome the guidance because this is a step forward and we have been clear that we need

00:05greater transparency and that's what the public want to see. But we have also asked the Law

00:11Commission particularly to look at what information can be released to make sure that we're not also

00:17affecting criminal trials that are underway. That's where a lot of the restrictions and

00:22constraints have been so we've asked the Law Commission to report very quickly this autumn

00:26on what more can be done to avoid prejudice in criminal trials.

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