I've been stopped in my own station before and asked for ID in uniform. I've been stopped driving an unmarked police car and had the keys taken out of the ignition by a police officer who asked me to get out of the car, knowing that no radio check had been done on the car. One of the most embarrassing incidents was when I went to Wormwood Scrubs to take a prisoner out to an ID parade. I was driving an unmarked police car, with a white colleague in the back who was handcuffed to a black prisoner. We drove into the back of the station and all of a sudden a rapid response car drove right across my path.
Lets talk about the differences within races and also between communities.
We've got to accept that there are people who perhaps don't want to be labelled in ethnic or racial terms. My roots are here, I was born here. My parents come from the subcontinent but my connections are very tenuous. I've never been there, but at the same time I have an identity that transcends race or anything else, something that comes from within, and that's Muslim. We're all several things at the same time and different identities will come to the fore at different moments.