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But Sir Peter Fahy, who leads on workforce development for the Association of Chief Police Officers, denied chief constables were to blame, saying they had been left "frustrated" in their attempts to recruit more ethnic minority officers by existing employment law.
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"University courses, on average, receive the highest grades from Ofsted and recruit the best graduates, " but it was those on the employment-based training who were the most likely to remain in teaching, they said.
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The minority of countries that recruit at this age argue that, if they left it any later, the young people would turn to other employment: more than half of military personnel in Britain joined before their 18th birthdays.
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