#BlackPoliceArchive – The National Black Police Association (NBPA) attaches huge significance to the discovery of John Kents “aka Black Kent” career, which it says is totally unexpected.
“The significance is that while we had people of colour joining that far back, it took until 2003 before we had the first black chief constable [Kent’s Mike Fuller],” said David McFarlane, the then NBPA’s national co-ordinator.
“A lot of people are under the misapprehension that black people only arrived here during the Windrush years [1940s and 1950s], or when the Asians came in the 1970s, but people of colour have been in this country for centuries.
See the Guardian News article
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/03/britain-19th-century-black-police-officer