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Armoury partnered with Channel 4 to work on a series of films for The Home Office, to tell the stories of black, female, and LGBT+ police officers in a three-part series of short films.

“Untold: The Police” features members of the public from groups that are less likely to consider a career in policing interview serving officers from those same communities.

The conversations are unscripted and cover topics such as the reaction of family and friends to their career choice, inclusion within the police force, the Black Lives Matter movement, stop and search and balancing personal life with work.

This is part of the Home Office’s wider "Make your difference" campaign aiming to recruit 20,000 additional police officers over three years. An extra 8,771 officers have been recruited so far – although this follows a 20,000 decline in police numbers in England from 2010, when the Conservatives first came to power, to 2018.

Tracy is a highly respected and successful serving Merseyside Detective from the LGBTQ+ community. She has been commended for her police work and her work to improve the police services approach to inclusivity and acceptance towards the LGBTQ+ community. Ali is a young gay Asian man who has considered a career in the Police force but was not sure he would be accepted and had doubts about whether he would meet likeminded officers from a similar cultural background with shared experiences. Tracy talks to Ali about the need to not fit in the Met and to create a more diverse, representative and effective police force.