Britain's top police officer controversially branded all sections of society ‘institutionally racist’ yesterday.

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said it is not only police forces which fail to represent the varied communities they serve.

The judiciary, medical profession, media and government are all dominated by the white middle classes, he suggested.

And the Scotland Yard boss admitted that there is ‘some justification' for people to think of his London force as a racist organisation.

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Speaking in an onscreen interview, Sir Bernard said black men are more likely to be stopped and searched by his officers and he can’t ‘fully explain’ why

Sir Bernard made the sweeping remark in a BBC fly-on-the-wall documentary which examines the aftermath of the death of Mark Duggan.

Tense footage shows senior officers preparing for fresh violence as an inquest finds the gangster was lawfully killed by police marksmen.

The 2011 Tottenham shooting sparked five days of bloody rioting that tore across the country and caused hundreds of millions pounds in damage.

Aftermath: Duggan's body lies in the street moments after he was killed by officers who saw him with a gun in a sock

Speaking in an onscreen interview, Sir Bernard said black men are more likely to be stopped and searched by his officers and he can’t ‘fully explain’ why.

Asked about the inflammatory label, first applied to the Met after the death of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, he replied: ‘I think society is institutionally racist.

Sir Bernard made the sweeping remark in a BBC fly-on-the-wall documentary which examines the aftermath of the death of Mark Duggan

‘You see lack of representation in many fields of which the police are one, from judges, to doctors, to journalists, to editors, to governments.’

Documentary makers from the BBC were given unprecedented access to the Met for 12 months until September last year.

They filmed anxious meetings as the inquest into Duggan’s death takes place and angry scenes at a town hall meeting where police are accused of ‘apartheid policing’.

They also showed the man responsible for policing Haringey, Victor Olisa, one of a handful of senior ethnic minority officers, struggling to overcome racial tensions.

After the inquest he is shown talking to angry protesters outside Tottenham Police Station, who question whether he was only appointed because he is black.

Mr Olisa later revealed he receives more of a ‘battering’ in Haringey than he did when he was borough commander in Bexley, where there was a large number of British National Party supporters.

He said: ‘I have got a colleague who works in an adjoining borough who is Jewish and the Jewish community embrace him with open arms.

‘I work in a borough with a sizeable number of black African community and I get more battering here than I did when I was working in a borough where there was a sizeable number of BNP people. It boils down to race.’

In an interview after a screening of the documentary, Sir Bernard said the force simply has to take longstanding accusations of racism ‘on the chin’.

Widespread rioting and looting started across London in the wake of Mr Duggan's death in 2011

The BBC filmed anxious meetings as the inquest into Duggan’s death - which lead to hundreds of millions of pounds of destruction across London - takes place, and angry scenes at a town hall meeting where police are accused of ‘apartheid policing’.

‘If other people think we are institutionally racist, then we are. I don't think people often understand what the term means,’ he said.

‘It's a label but in some sense there is a truth there for some people and we've got to accept that.

‘It's no good me saying we're not and saying you must believe me. [That would be] a nonsense, if they believe that.’

He added: ‘You're very much more likely to be stopped and searched if you're a young black man.

‘I can't explain that fully. I can give you reasons but I can't fully explain it. So there is some justification.’

The term institutional racism was coined by Sir William Macpherson when he investigated the Met’s response to the murder of Stephen in Eltham, South East London, in 1993.

A report into the botched investigation concluded that officers had not properly investigated the crime because of the 18-year-old's ethnicity.