Judge claims police only use IC codes for black people

A judge has blasted ‘offensive’ police officers for using the code ‘IC3’ to describe black male suspects. Judge Alistair McCreath QC, the Recorder of Westminster, said officers should stop the codes to refer to black people in police reports. The code IC1 refers to a white man, while an Asian man is referred to as an ‘IC4.’ British police have used seven IC codes to describe the ethnicity of suspects since the late 1970s. Judge McCreath objected to an undercover…