New recruiting program to increase diversity
Posted Feb 28, 2010 8:19 am.
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With the goal of adding more diversity to its ranks, the Calgary Police Service has launched a new recruiting program.
21 volunteers from the CPS will act as ambassadors acting as recruiters in their communities.
Those communities include ethnic communities as well as factors such as gender, religion, sexual orientation and age groups.
It’s hoped the end result besides the recruitment of new officers will mean better ties to ethnic groups which might currently feel isolated from the policing in the city.
Norma Ellis is one of the program volunteers.
She tells the Calgary Herald, a friend who has been in Calgary for three years says he’s never seen a black police officer in Calgary.
He’s surprised with a force of 1800 men and women how few are afro-Canadian or from the Caribbean community.
