Saturday, August 16, 2008
Montreal cops offer lessons on diversity
When police chiefs from across the country meet in Montreal next weekend, they'll focus on the hot-button issue of diversity - and get lessons from the Mont-real force.
As part of a program sketched out long before this week's crisis over the shooting of Fredy Villanueva and the ensuing riot, assistant chief Denis Desroches will tell the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police what Montreal has been doing to ensure individuals aren't being singled out on the basis of race.
He'll also outline the force's multicultural development plan, adopted in March to reflect the department's desire "to live up to the new multicultural image of our metropolis."
Montreal police were criticized last year for an internal newsletter that recommended female police officers defer to their male partners in dealings with Hasidic men. Last spring, a federal court ordered the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to compensate a Muslim man deemed to have been victim of discrimination during training. The Mounties were also ordered to adopt cultural sensitivity training to promote "a culture of respect and tolerance for diversity."
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=0f551c83-6e25-4f85-9f51-43c0cb4aac3b
As part of a program sketched out long before this week's crisis over the shooting of Fredy Villanueva and the ensuing riot, assistant chief Denis Desroches will tell the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police what Montreal has been doing to ensure individuals aren't being singled out on the basis of race.
He'll also outline the force's multicultural development plan, adopted in March to reflect the department's desire "to live up to the new multicultural image of our metropolis."
Montreal police were criticized last year for an internal newsletter that recommended female police officers defer to their male partners in dealings with Hasidic men. Last spring, a federal court ordered the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to compensate a Muslim man deemed to have been victim of discrimination during training. The Mounties were also ordered to adopt cultural sensitivity training to promote "a culture of respect and tolerance for diversity."
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=0f551c83-6e25-4f85-9f51-43c0cb4aac3b
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