ABSTRACT
The publication of the Scarman Report (1981) proved to be the impetus for a number of changes in police training policy and practice. Nearly 10 years later the publication of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report provided a further wake-up call to police training on a number of fronts. In this chapter we highlight a number of these which seem to have been significant. In some ways it is difficult to isolate changes in policing and practice in police training that may be regarded entirely as a legacy of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, for example the introduction of the Initial Police Learning and Development Programme, which devolved initial police training from the Central Police Training and Development Authority to more local authorities, can be seen as having been influenced by Lawrence but did not happen as a result of it. That said, the impact of Lawrence can be detected in a range of issues of policy and practice and it is these that are discussed below.
