The Papers: 'Top cop sorry' and 'Prince of pubs'

'Top cop sorry' and 'Prince of pubs'Just nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleBBCThe fallout from the Henry Nowak case continues to dominate Thursday's papers. The Daily Express leads with the chief constable of Hampshire police apologising to Nowak's family for the student being handcuffed and arrested as he lay dying. The paper quotes Chief Constable Alexis Boon saying: "What was filmed there is a tragedy. I really feel for the family of Henry at this time."The Daily Mail follows with calls for the police officers involved in Nowak's arrest to be investigated. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp is leading the charge, asking the police watchdog to launch a full misconduct investigation into the officers, the paper says. The Independent Office for Police Conduct is currently treating the individual officers as "witnesses" in its inquiry into the police force's actions.A staff survey conducted at the force responsible for the arrest of Nowak found one in seven officers felt "controlled and pressured to feel certain ways" after receiving mandatory racism and diversity training, the Times reports. Among the findings, one in five officers said they feared being "rejected for saying the wrong thing", with the paper saying the results are likely to provoke fresh questions about the role of diversity guidelines in the actions of police officers.The Daily Telegraph features the same lead story, saying that Hampshire police officers' decision to handcuff Nowak as he lay dying has prompted calls for race bias guidance to be scrapped. Elsewhere, the Prince of Wales is pictured at a pub, pledging to do as much as he can to support the businesses as places for communities to integrate.The Guardian shifts its focus to growing concerns that politicians such as Nigel Farage were using the murder of Nowak to stoke tensions after the Reform UK leader said the incident amounted to two-tier policing. P...