**What Farage is specifically asserting**: In his speech, Farage claims that police are given written instructions that say "You must treat different ethnic groups in different ways," and that this constitutes a system of "two-tier policing" that results in unfair treatment of (white) British citizens. **Evidence supporting part of the claim**: There is indeed written guidance from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and College of Policing — the Police Anti-Racism Commitment — that states the commitment to racial equity means "producing equality of policing outcomes for people from different ethnic groups by responding to individuals and communities according to their specific needs, circumstances and experiences." It explicitly states: "It does not mean treating everyone 'the same' or being 'colour blind' (racial equality)." So Farage is accurate that written guidance exists telling police not to treat everyone identically, and to respond to different ethnic groups according to their specific needs. **Evidence contradicting the broader claim**: The characterization of this as "two-tier policing" that systematically disadvantages white people is contradicted by multiple lines of evidence: 1. **Government statistics** show the opposite pattern from what "two-tier policing" implies. Black people are 2.2 times more likely to be arrested than white people (20.4 vs. 9.4 per 1,000) and 3.8 times more likely to be stopped and searched. The stated purpose of the NPCC guidance is to *address* these documented disparities, not to create new ones favoring minorities. 2. **The Home Office** has explicitly stated: "it is categorically false that the police are told to apply the law differently to anyone based on their ethnicity." 3. **The HMICFRS inspection** into activism and impartiality in policing (commissioned by then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman after "two-tier" concerns were raised) found systemic problems with clarity around impartiality and the Equality Act, but did not find evidence of systematic two-tier policing by race. It acknowledged that "more and more people asserting that 'two-tier' policing is in operation" was damaging trust, but attributed this to lack of clarity rather than actual systematic differential treatment. 4. **Senior police officers and criminologists** have rejected the characterization. A superintendent with 24 years of service said he has seen no evidence of two-tier policing. Criminologist Peter Squires called it "utter nonsense" and "largely a political narrative." 5. **The Henry Nowak case** — which triggered this speech — involved a specific incident where officers believed a false narrative from the killer (who claimed he had been racially abused). The judge described this as officers being given a "convincing but wholly false narrative" in a "very difficult situation." It was widely treated as a catastrophic failure of individual judgment in that incident, not evidence of a systematic policy of differential treatment. **Conclusion**: The claim is partly true — written guidance does exist that tells police not to treat everyone "the same" and to respond to different ethnic groups according to their needs. However, the broader claim that this constitutes "two-tier policing" systematically disadvantaging white British citizens is contradicted by official statistics (which show minorities face harsher policing outcomes), by the stated purpose of the guidance itself (to address those disparities), by the Home Office's explicit denial, and by the findings of the HMICFRS inspection. The NPCC guidance is aimed at reducing documented racial disparities in policing, not at treating white people less favourably. 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