The inspector said, “there’s only one thing more dangerous than a pikey and that’s an educated pikey”. That is what they took from that meeting is that I’m a pikey.
That was Claire Bryce an English Romani Gypsy talking about her experience training her local police force on how to tackle hate crime towards the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities commonly referred to as GRT.
Since finishing her Master’s in Criminology at the University of Cambridge, she has worked at the GRT charity Gate Herts providing legal support to people from her community.
Despite Claire’s educational and professional achievements, she admits the prejudice she faced as a Romani Gypsy made her route to success difficult.