[Canada] Minority officers and community policing / rabble columns, 1 May 2006

http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=49497Tricai Hylton"With Stephen Harper's commitment to get tough on crime, and police forces across Canada demanding new officers, the time has never been better to hire more minority officers. The 2002 report, Strategic Human Resources Analysis of Public Policing in Canada notes, the police force is one of Canada's least diverse workforces, both at the rank and file level and at the executive level. This is problematic on many levels, but particularly to the implementation of one strategy proven to crack down on crime: community policing. "