Modern Policing?

[kneeshooter]

The other day there I heard an interesting debate on Radio 4 about diversity training. One of the participants was suggesting the Diversity training industry was actually hiding rather than changing cultures in society - and that by "ticking boxes" organisations were being encouraged to "pay for experts to give talks" rather than actually addressing issues.

I thought this was quite interesting - though of course the question remains whether there is a better course of action...

I was reminded of this having caught a bit of fly on the wall of the Met Police this morning - the Missing Persons Unit catches up with one of their targets and opens the conversation with the heart-warming "Ere Mate - You Ain't Earing Strange Voices Or Nothin Are You?". Modern sympathetic policing...

Also, have a read of steve_c, who this morning has some depressingly true comments about modern politics.

Comments

[trauma-pet.livejournal.com]

Working in diversity I'd say that's absolutely true. We try to focus on culture change but the legal requirements we have to make means that box ticking does occur whether we like it or not..

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

There are two kinds of office, I find, ones in which everyone gives as good as they get in banter and everyone gets along with everyone else, and ones in which no-one even makes eye contact with their colleagues as they're too afraid of complaints to HR. The "diversity" industry is parasitic, created by HR types to justify their continued employment...