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'White male' kept out of police chief jobMonday 09 March 2009 Home affairs minister Guusje ter Horst has refused to name a new police chief in the Zuid-Holland Zuid region because officials want the job to go to a white male, various newspapers report on Monday. Ter Horst has agreed with the mayors of the big cities (who are effectively the head of police in their area), that 25% of the police force's top jobs should be held by women within four years. 'If you don't resist the automatic reflext to name men, white men, you will never get a diverse police force,' Ter Horst told tv show Buitenhof on Sunday. Since the target was set, 17 men and three women have been appointed to senior functions. 'If we carry on at that speed, we will never reach 25%,' the minister said. But many MPs are unhappy with the minister's decision. 'It is all about the best man in the right place,' said Christian Democrat MP Coskun Çörüz in the AD. 'We are already finding it hard to get good people for police vacancies.'
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Micro management of color,gender,religion,national origin, and gender preference,et al. causes an abundance of resentment to those passed over who may feel better qualified. It is very difficult to motivate employees who are required to work for a boss because he/she was promoted to meet a categorical quoto. What is important is for all employees to feel that promotion selection is based only on merit. By HistoryTechDoc | March 9, 2009 4:15 PM Merlene, They don't "have to be WHITE", the point is that they ARE white... and male, but the minister doesn't want to give them the job because of it. By Geuzen76 | March 9, 2009 6:06 PM People should be hired for their skills, not their gender or religious belief. Quotation is disgusting. By xen | March 11, 2009 10:28 PM
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Sorry, am I missing something here - why do they have to be "WHITE"?
By Merlene | March 9, 2009 3:00 PM