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Mr. Meacher
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) black and (b) white persons were, respectively, stopped and searched and later detained under (i) the drugs laws and (ii) the laws relating to being a suspected person, and so on, in each of the last five years.
Mr. Brittan
[pursuant to his reply, 15 February 1980, c. 852]: Information con-
| PERSONS ARRESTED* FOR BEING SUSPECTED OF FREQUENTING A PUBLIC PLACE WITH INTENT TO COMMIT AN ARRESTABLE OFFENCE BY ETHNIC APPEARANCE METROPOLITAN POLICE DISTRICT | ||||||||
| Number of offences | ||||||||
| Year | White-skinned European | Dark-skinned European | Black-skinned (including West Indian/African) | Indian/Pakistani | Chinese/Japanese | Arabian Egyptian | Not Know | Total |
| 1975 | 1,258 | 66 | 947 | 39 | 4 | 27 | 1 | 2,342 |
| 1976 | 1,098 | 60 | 887 | 37 | 4 | 24 | 2 | 2,112 |
| 1977 | 1,197 | 48 | 1,042 | 45 | 5 | 27 | 2 | 2,366 |
| 1978 | 1,199 | 73 | 1,016 | 30 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 2,331 |
| 1979 | 1,018 | 63 | 767 | 30 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1,894 |
| * Persons proceeded against by means of a charge, referral to a juvenile bureau, a caution or in some other way; arrests not followed by any action are not included. | ||||||||