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Photo: ANGELA PHILLIPS (IFL A new police commander has just been appoint to Q' Division, which covers Brent in London. He obviously fancies himself in his boss's role, for like Sir Robert Mark, he has proclaimed his desire 'to see more black officers joining the force." He was disappointed that 'the black community didn't respond to the recent recruitment campaign.

He may have been disappointed, but he shouldn't have been surprised Three hundred people took to the streets of Brent on Saturday 3 July to tell him the reason why. The blatant racism of the local police force had brought things to a head with the vicious beating up and arrest of six young black girls a fortnight before.

The girls were returning home from the Burning Spear Club in Harlesden when they were stopped, questioned about events at the club, and subsequently brutally roughed up. The girls were then charged with various offences ranging from obstruc VARGE Kl