Sophie Khan is the Police Action Centre’s Director of Legal & Policy.

She is a civil rights lawyer, who specialises in Action Against the Police and Inquest Law. She has been specialising in Actions Against the Police and Inquest Law for several years and also campaigns on police-related issues such as the excessive use of Tasers, indiscriminate use of stop and search and against the privatisation of the police.

She has acted for families whose relatives have died following police contact and police restraint. She continues to raise awareness of the need to improve police training around the use of restraint to take into account the risks and consequences so as to prevent future deaths during arrest or in police custody.

She writes regularly on police law and had a dedicated blog ‘On the beat’ at the Solicitors Journal.

She is a trustee of the Stop and Search Legal Project

And a former Executive Member of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers a professional organisation which provides a forum for discussion and analysis of the law from a socialist perspective.