Reformers have advocated many strategies for improving relations between police and minorities over the years. While some of these strategies are specifically directed at the so-called ‘race relations’ aspects of policing, there is increasing recognition among police reformers that problems of police-minorities relations require more than piecemeal or localised changes. Rather, poor relations between police and minority groups are a reflection of more general deficiencies in either police training or police management. In order to achieve fundamental change, these deficiencies need to be dealt with, not as isolated problems, but systematically. Evidence of a willingness to change can be found in virtually all Australian police forces. At a national conference in 1990, senior police from all States and Territories of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, community leaders, government representatives and researchers met to examine the trends and issues of police service delivery to multi cultural communities (Australian Bicentennial Multicultural Foundation [ABMF] 1990). An impressive array of initiatives undertaken by Australian police forces was presented at the conference. In some instances, there have been substantial changes to the police organisation, including recruitment, training, philosophy and style of policing. In others, innovative experimental programs are being trialled. Where traditional policing emphasises arrests and charges, fast cars and random patrol, the new vision of policing is one of being accountable to the community and establishing a partnership with the community in policing. It recognises the ineffectiveness of traditional policing methods as well as the resourcefulness of the community in matters of crime prevention and social control.