Oh for God's sake, what is May on about, she makes a good stance against the migrant problem but then spoils herself with this crap.
Why do we need more ethnic minorities as police officers? How does that make the public feel better? What difference does it make??
All this is doing is promoting discrimination when hiring people, once again.
You can't just increase a certain demographic of people into an important role/job just so it looks good and progressive, that's how incidents occur. Maybe there's a simple reason why there aren't that many, like they just failed training or simply don't wanna be police officers.
Considering officers in the UK get paid around 25k a year or less, depending where they are, I'm not surprised people don't apply. Raise the wages and maybe you'll get a change.