Home Department written question – answered at on 28 April 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of (a) police community support officers and (b) police officers are in each ethnic category in each London borough.
The ethnicity of police service personnel is not collected at the borough level, and is only available at the force level.
The available data are given in the following tables.
Proportion of police officers( 1) in London by ethnicity as at 31 March 2007 | ||
Percentage | ||
Metropolitan police | City of London police | |
White | 91.9 | 94.9 |
Mixed | 1.4 | 1.4 |
Black or Black British | 2.4 | 1.5 |
Asian or Asian British | 2.8 | 2.1 |
Other ethnic group | 1.3 | 0.1 |
Not stated | 0.2 | 0.0 |
(1) Figures based on full-time equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. |
Proportion of police community support officers( 1) in London by ethnicity as at 31 March 2007 | ||
Percentage | ||
Metropolitan police | City of London police | |
White | 67.4 | 83.3 |
Mixed | 3.8 | 8.3 |
Black or Black British | 11.3 | 2.8 |
Asian or Asian British | 12.1 | 5.6 |
Other ethnic group | 4.1 | 0.0 |
Not stated | 1.3 | 0.0 |
(1) Figures based on full-time equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. |
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