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Should the police force be able to use positive discrimination rather than positive action to recruit and promote more people from black, female and other ethnic minority groups?
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Should the police force be able to use positive discrimination rather than positive action to recruit and promote more people from black, female and other ethnic minority groups? It has become important that both women and ethnic minority groups are represented in the police force as if this does not happen the communities the police are supposed to serve are not properly represented. Although there have been several schemes to allow women and ethnic minority groups to be properly represented in the police force, these schemes have not yet been successful. This can be seen in the Home Office, Labour Force Survey 1997-1998. The survey shows that the targets to increase the percentage of ethnic minorities found within police forces in certain areas of the country have failed, for example in Bedfordshire the target was 9.9% but in actual fact the result was a dismal 3.4%, and this shows that the representation thought...
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