Female police chief demands more hiring of ethnic minorities
A SENIOR official is calling for radical change in UK employment law: legalize Affirmative Action. Julie Spence, Cambridgeshire’s Deputy Chief Constable, believes that ethnic minorities should be hired before White candidates even if they have the same qualifications.
Spence is one among many police officers who reject the UK’s majority White police force and wants to help non-White minorities gain employment to assist in meeting Home Office recruitment targets. Presently, the Home Office’s goal is asking for a racial quota of 7.7 minority hiring.
Later this month, Spence will take her argument to a conference in Peterborough where she hopes to influence others to pass legislation quickly. “It takes two years to get new legislation through, so we have got to do this now if we are going to get the diverse, representative workforce the Government says it wants. If handled sensitively and professionally, it will have a positive effect on policing.”
Proponents of racial quotas and Affirmative Action do not cite evidence or statistics as to why diverse work force is more effective, and opponents of the programs warn that the practice is discrimination and racism against Whites.
Racial quotas also lower standards, but Spence doesn’t believe it. “The evidence shows that standards go up when more jobs are opened up to women and ethnic minorities,” Spence said. But, in a very non-investigative way, she was unable to show where that evidence is located.
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