E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.2 page 27 order to promote equality for ethnic minorities in access to housing and employment and, in the situation currently prevailing, in the areas of work and securing accommodation. The federal employment office could not, however, be persuaded of the need to eliminate the indication “Alien: yes/no” in the computerized data files of the central employment office. This differentiation is of no interest to a commercial firm and is absolutely irrelevant to a candidate's qualifications for a job, but it does on the other hand constitute a manifest and inadmissible example of discrimination. 17. It emerges from discussions with the advertising departments of major newspapers that discriminatory indications such as “no foreigners” or “Germans only” have mostly been eliminated from the situations vacant columns. 18. As for the remarks and stereotypes corroborating prejudices that appeared in a series of economic publications, the Commissioner for Aliens roundly criticized the publisher, an effective proceeding that achieves results in most cases. On the other hand, effective counter-measures are difficult to devise for coping with the threats, general and specific (such as anonymous letters and notes), addressed to members of ethnic minorities and also to the Office of the Commissioner for Aliens. Judicial inquiries are instituted in every case after such incidents. Measures applied in Berlin's various administrative services Police department (a) Planned restructuring of the police administration so as to ensure direct and continuous relations and meetings with migrants' organizations, representatives of minorities and advisory boards (this has already been discussed at police headquarters and the first steps have been taken); (b) Development and implementation of reorientation courses for police, with the aim of professionalizing their behaviour in their dealings with minorities (improving their presentation and developing their sensitivity during their professional training are key elements). The police training department is already working on this project and is being advised by the Commissioner for Aliens. Public services (a) Campaigns to step up recruitment and placing of ethnic and cultural minorities in the government departments and municipal undertakings of Berlin State, as well as in the police. The civil service must show the way in this sphere. Schools (a) The project “Schools against violence”, launched last year, features measures to combat xenophobia and racism through workshops, bringing-up of the subject in class, excursions to places of commemoration, and sensitization of teachers and outreach workers (by continuing education); (b) Need to develop programmes of exchanges and meetings.