A recent television documentary involved sending an undercover journalist into police training with secret cameras. The reason for the secret cameras was to investigate whether or not men and women in the police force hold racist views.
             The journalist mingled and became friends with the other trainees and subsequently went out drinking and socialising with them on many occasions. The journalist talked to the group up to the point where they unknowingly gave their honest truthful answers to his veiled questions.
             There was only one Asian in the whole training group . He seemed always to be alone. The others seemed never to interact with him. When the journalist asked the group about racist views that they may have their fellow Asian trainee came up in conversation. Because their comments towards their colleague were very harsh, another member of the conversation warned them that the Asian man was in the room right next door and might overhear their conversation.
             As time went on they all experienced some tough physical and mental training. They learned that the law had become very strict on racism against ethnic minorities. They had many lectures about this subject and by the hostile atmosphere it didn't seem as if it was going down too well.
             Finally two points in this documentary that shocked me were: firstly one night one of the journalists "new friends" thought it would be amusing if the were to dress up as a member of the Klu Klux Klan and thought it would have been even more amusing to knock on the Asian trainee's door. However they did not go quite this far but the fact they had even thought about doing it, was disturbing.
             The second point was near the end of the documentary, when they had all got places as probationary officers and were given placements across England. The journalist made a journey to visit some of them to see if their views were still the same. He met up with at least t
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