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If his job doesn't kill him, the heroin might.
Mohammad Akbar is a first lieutenant in the highly touted Afghan National Army, considered crucial to the future of this war-torn country. But for three years, Akbar has also been a junkie, shooting up heroin with hundreds of other addicts in a bombed-out building in Kabul littered with disposable needle wrappers and human waste.
"I come here because of the pressure," said Akbar, 25, who is married and has a daughter. "Pressure made me an addict. Otherwise, life is too difficult."
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28 February 2007
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Why police may need race quota
Imposing US-style race recruitment quotas on police forces may be the only way to meet Government ethnic minority targets, a chief constable said yesterday.
Peter Fahy, of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said that at the current recruitment rate it would take at least 17 years to achieve a service that was fully representative of the racial make-up of modern Britain. "A lot of people feel that is too long," he added.
Mr Fahy, the chief constable of Cheshire, told MPs on the home affairs select committee that Acpo wanted to start a debate on the highly controversial issue.
Affirmative action has been used in the US but the law in Britain would have to be changed to allow it.
Mr Fahy told MPs that the speed at which the ethnic make-up of the population was changing meant "there is no way we can catch up … unless we consider some special measures".
He insisted there was a "strong operational case" for recruiting more officers from black and ethnic minority communities, as Britain had a tradition of policing by community consent.
After the committee meeting, Mr Fahy said Acpo had sounded out Government and it had been made clear that affirmative action involving quotas was "not politically acceptable". He added: "I don't detect a political appetite for it."
The Government had, instead, urged greater "positive action", the policy allowed in law which involves greater encouragement of ethnic minority recruitment. "But we are saying positive action won't do it," he said.
Mr Fahy conceded that in some areas white potential recruits were unhappy that they were not getting on to the force when ethnic minority people were and added that a danger of quota-based affirmative action would be even greater resentment among white officers and recruits.
However, he said politicians should consider the issue before they criticised police for not meeting ethnic targets.
Last year, a 10-year Home Office target for seven per cent of officers to be from ethnic minorities by 2009 was dropped because it was "unrealistic". It was replaced with targets aimed at ensuring that new recruits reflected the racial make-up of each area.
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