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: Current AwarenessSir Ian Blair denies blocking promotion of Asian police officer Shabir Hussain - The Times
By traceydennis
“Britain?s most senior police officer was forced to defend his record on race yesterday, telling a tribunal that it would have been an ‘extraordinary aberration’ if he had tried to block the promotion of an ethnic minority colleague.”
The Times, 11th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Full post as published by Current Awareness on July 11, 2008 (boomark / email).
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