Met settles officer claim

AN ASIAN police officer has reached a confidential settlement with the Metropolitan Police, after initiating legal action against Scotland Yard over allegations of racial and gender discrimination.

Parm Sandhu, a chief superintendent with the Met, claimed she was denied promotions and opportunities at work due to her race and gender.

Sandhu, 55, said she had agreed to a confidential settlement after she left the police last year, after being cleared of misconduct allegations.

“I have settled my claims with the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service). The terms of the settlement are confidential. I have no further comment to make,” she told the Daily Mirror.

“Worked with some fabulous people. Had some good times and painful experiences, but I know I made a difference,” Sandhu said after she quit the force in October last year.

She took the legal step at the end of an internal Met Police investigation, which exonerated her of gross misconduct in June last year. The inquiry, launched in June 2018, probed whether Sandhu encouraged her colleagues to support her nomination for a Queen’s Police Medal.

Sandhu, who joined the police service in 1989, rose through the ranks to become borough commander in Richmond-upon-Thames.

She had made a splash as the head of an anti-corruption squad set up after the racially motivated murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993.

Sandhu was one of the most senior ethnic minority woman officers in the Met Police.