As an elected member of Dundee City Council, I am pleased to hear that Tayside Police is undertaking diversity training for its staff. Unlike the reporter from the Mail on Sunday, I think it can be useful to use images and snippets from television in such training to make it relevant to the lives of the course participants. Of the examples, cited, I vividly remember the moment that Susan Boyle first performed on Britain's got Talent in 2009. It's important to take seriously equal opportunities and its too easy to superficially criticize. I'll leave it to my colleagues on the Police Board to look into this and make a judgement about the effectiveness rather than the form of the training.
