Midia Medina, from Portsmouth’s Black Lives Matter – a group set up as part of a global response to an American police officer murdering a black man – said: ‘I think the current number speaks volumes of the changes that need to happen within the police force.
Midia Medina at at BLM protest in June 2020. Picture: David George
‘I do believe that until reforms are made they might not get that much interest from BAME members to become part of the force which for some people equals to becoming part of the problem.’
But she added: ‘I think it would be great to see more representation within the police force.