警方邁向種族性别平等的努力
Abstract:
Police--Canada; Race discrimination Canada; Sex discrimination--Canada; Equality--Canada; Immigrants--Canada; Social integration--Canada
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Police--Canada; Race discrimination Canada; Sex discrimination--Canada; Equality--Canada; Immigrants--Canada; Social integration--Canada
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Police--Canada; Race discrimination Canada; Sex discrimination--Canada; Equality--Canada; Immigrants--Canada; Social integration--Canada
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Date:
1993-06-13
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1993-06-13
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1993-06-13
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Language:
Chinese
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Chinese
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Article from: World Journal（世界日報）
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Title-Alternative:
The Police Take Efforts towards Race and Gender Equality
Transcript:
警方邁向種族性别平等的努力
市民仍感覺到進展太慢
少部份警員與新移民有疏離感
社會上不同團體對警民關係大致持有審慎地樂觀的態度，市民看到警方在招聘少數族裔及女性警員的努力，但仍覺得邁向種族和性别平等的進展太慢。同時，大家亦關心此舉是否會令白種男性感到疏離。
市民認爲，高級警務人員對社區團體的意見比較重視，但前線的警員卻缺乏相同的想法。有市民説：「我覺得警隊的管理階層做了很多事，他們有很多主意去改善警民關係，但一旦到了前線，就没有甚麽具體作爲。」
大家希望警方能更盡力改善與市民的關係，例如警員多與社區接觸，社區也應和警方多聯絡。
部分市民説，一些警員覺得偏離主流社會價值規範是一個問題。特别是警員與新移民接觸時，警員有一種危機感。市民認爲警方的行爲是有威嚇性的，令個别市民不敢隨意向警方求助。一市民説：「大部分警員均從白種男性的角度看問題，他們傾向於用一個觀點來評估情况，例如認爲某事件是「黑人問題」、「華人問題」、「女性問題」、「同性戀問題」，他們把事情「分件化」和僵化處理。」 在承認警員受到很多工作壓力的同時，社區人士認爲應對警隊有嚴格的要求。他們認爲應對投考警員的人進行性向測驗，以確保警員不會有性别、種族等歧視態度。
警員應對自己的行爲負責,他們也應被鼓勵，以監督同僚的言行。很多警員看見同僚的行爲有問題，卻不向上級報告，因爲他們受到同僚的壓力,但這是不對的做法。
市民亦表示，對警員的「平等訓練」時間應加長，並且要在初段訓練期内均要實施，不要只倜限於某個訓練單元。他們認爲應强制警員接受此項 「平等訓練」，因爲一些警員不覺得這是一個要注意的問題。
有人亦擔心少數族裔警員並不受到其他警員的歡迎。「有些警員並不覺得需要少數族裔同僚，也不接受他們。」
市民認爲,在警員控告市民時，不同族裔的人會受到不同的對待。「白種男性一般被裁定有條件地被釋放，黑人男性卻可能被判要被監守行爲一段日子。」
「每個青年人在法庭上最終會被判有罪。他們均感到被處分。警員在工作時，對不同群體有不同的對待方式。」
English translation: The Police Take Efforts towards Race and Gender Equality
The Citizens Feel that the Progress Is Too Slow
A Few Police Officers Feel Alienated from the New Immigrants
Different groups in the community are generally cautiously optimistic about the relationship between the police and the public. The public has seen the police' s efforts to recruit minority and female police officers but still feels that progress towards race and gender equality is too slow. At the same time, everyone is also concerned about whether this will make white males feel alienated.
The public believes that senior police officers pay more attention to the opinions of community groups. But frontline police officers usually do not have the same idea. One member of the public said: "I feel that the administration of the police has done a lot of things. They have many ideas to improve the relationship between the police and the public. But once they reach the front line, nothing specific happens."
People wish to see the police’s efforts to improve its relationship with the public. For example, the effort to help the police officer have more contact with the communities. The communities should have more contact with the police.
Some citizens said that some police officers considered that deviating from mainstream social value norms was a problem. In particular, police officers have a sense of crisis when they come into contact with new immigrants. The public thinks that the police' s actions are intimidating and that some members of the public are afraid to ask the police for help. A citizen said: "Most of the police officers look at a problem from the perspective of a white male. They tend to use this viewpoint to assess the situation. For example, they consider an incident as ‘black problem’, or ‘Chinese problem’, or ‘female problem’, or ‘The problem of homosexuality’. They separate the incidents that belong to the same issue and handle them rigidly.” While acknowledging that police officers are under a lot of pressure from work, the community members believe that there should be strict requirements for the police. For those wish to become police officers, some aptitude tests are needed to ensure that police officers do not hold discriminatory attitudes about gender and ethnic groups.
Police officers need to be responsible for their actions. They should be encouraged to note the words and behaviours of their colleagues. Many police officers saw that their peers had problematic behaviour but they did not report them to their superiors because they were under peer pressure. This was not the right thing to do.
The public also stated that the "equality training" for police officers should be prolonged and should be implemented during the initial training period. It cannot be limited to only one training unit. People believe that it should be obligatory for police officers to accept the "equality training" because some police officers do not feel that this is a notable problem.
Some people are also worried that minority police officers may not be welcomed by other police officers. "Some police officers do not feel that they need colleagues from ethnic minority groups and do not accept them."
The public believes that people of different ethnic groups will be treated differently when police officers bring charges against a suspect. "White males are generally released under certain conditions while black men may be sentenced to be held in custody for a while." "Every young person will eventually be found guilty in court. They all feel that they are being punished. When working, the police officers treat different groups differently."
