Female Quotas

[opsgirl]

Does anyone know if each Policing Service sets out a quota for the number of men vs women that they put through?

[Big Guy]

There is no service that I am aware of that has a quota for female hires, or any other identifiable group.

[threesac]

You'd be surpised.... :wink:

[Metaxa]

[quote:b2b0f46a3d=\"threesac\"]You'd be surpised.... :wink:[/quote:b2b0f46a3d]



Exactly as stated! you would be very suprised! female, race and colour are all taken into consideration. key word \"Diversity\"

[Big Guy]

Taking minority status into consideration is very different from having a quota. Yes, every service in Canada is trying to hire more women and minorities, but they don't have a system set up to hire 11 Women, 4 Asians, 5 Africans, 6 Hispanics, 4 Natives, and 2 White guys.

[opsgirl]

Big Guy, I understand what you're saying. I didn't mean to suggest anything as specific as that. I was just wondering if they were trying to save \"x\" amount of spaces for women recruits.

[cowboylaw]

opsgirl: I don't think any force could set a specific number for females. The service is alotted a specific number of spaces at OPC - to hold a certain amount for females would not serve the service ... especially with such a low number of females passing the PREP and moving on to the interview stage...

[opsgirl]

Jenn, were you successful your first time passing the PREP?

[cowboylaw]

Yep, sure was ... I was lucky enough to be able to do a practice run before the test date and found out what I needed to work on.