DAILY EXPRESS: BRITAIN’S second largest police force has been accused of discriminating against white men by setting itself targets to recruit and promote more black and female officers.
West Midlands police chiefs have pledged to increase the proportion of new recruits from “black or minority ethnic” groups to 12 per cent and women to 42 per cent.
Under the new arrangements, agreed yesterday by the local police authority, the targets will grow by two per cent every year until 2012.
The force has been warned it is walking into a potentially illegal and costly minefield of political correctness.
Former West Midlands police superintendent and city councillor John Mellor described the move as a terrible mistake. >>> By Anil Dawar | Saturday, May 23, 2009
