Montreal, Canada - Female Officers to Step Aside When Male Victims Prefer Not to Deal With Them

Montreal, Canada - An internal police memo suggesting that female police officers call in male colleagues when male victims prefer not to deal with a women police officer, is sparking heated debate in Montreal.

The issue has been raised in an internal publication for the Montreal police officers. And it suggests that female officers let their male partners deal with victims and witnesses if they're Hasidic Jewish men whose religion frowns on fraternization with most women. 
The head of the city's police union said that it is outrageous and that women officers have the same right and the same respect as their male officers counterpart.

But Mayer Feig, a spokesman for the Orthodox Jewish community in Montreal, says the controversy, at least as far as Hasidic Jews are concerned, is nonsense. 
Feig says his community has never asked for any limitation on female police and that he deals with women officers on a daily basis without any problem.