“Sometimes Chinese police officers, when they are faced with an ethnic minority, they cannot speak to them and fix the problem. He said he hoped his story could inspire ethnic minority children in Hong Kong, a city which is 95 per cent ethnically Chinese, to pursue their dreams and not be blocked by social barriers. The mentoring programme for ethnic minority officers was launched in 2013 in Yuen Long and Yau Tsim as part of a recruitment drive to employ more non-Chinese. It offers recruits extra Chinese language classes, team building exercises and mentoring from other ethnic minority officers. “[On the street], first of all [people] will talk to me in English and after I reply in Chinese and they say ‘wow, he can speak Chinese’.” – South China Morning Post

Source: The Star March 18, 2017 05:25 UTC