A UK police classification code denoting a person perceived to be of Black African or Caribbean heritage. Part of a numerical Identity Code system used by British police to describe ethnic appearance in reports (IC1 = White European, IC3 = Black, etc.). The system is a flashpoint in debates about racial profiling and police record-keeping practices.
The dispatch described the suspect as an IC3 male in his twenties.
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(UK, police) A person of black ethnicity.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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