A Greater Manchester Police Officer has received an MBE in this year's Queens Birthday Honours List.
Race Relations Officer for the South Manchester division Afzal Iqbal (pictured), of Oldham was rewarded for his efforts to build links between the police service and ethnic communities.
In 1995, he helped set up the Longsight Multi-Agency Racial Harassment Project which recognised the problems victims of racial harassment face daily and enabled the police to build vital links with both statutory and voluntary agencies from minority ethnic communities to help tackle such problems.
He has organised personal safety awareness days for elderly people, drug awareness events for young people and arranged for police officers and members of support staff to have courses in basic conversational Urdu.
He said: "I am pleased and honoured to receive this award which is totally unexpected. I am happy to have made a small contribution to building relationships between the police and minority ethnic communities in South Manchester."
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article