Monday, July 03, 2006

[Denmark] Police fail to attract immigrants / The Copenhagen Post, 29 June 2006

http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=3816890/
"Difficulties prevail for the National Police to attract would-be officers with immigrant backgrounds. Years of recruitment efforts to attract young people with immigrant backgrounds to police forces have had little effect. In the group of 200 students set to begin their police training 1 August, only four have an ethnic background other than Danish. Peter Ibsen, head of the Police Union, is disappointed with the numbers. 'I know that there have been significant resources used to attract young people with immigrant backgrounds to create a police force that mirrors society's make-up."