[holding answer 4 December 2006]: Numbers of arrests and cautions by police force area and ethnicity have been published in associationwith successive annual editions of the section 95 publication, “Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System”, and are available on the Home Office website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/section951.html, along with a table of the percentage of arrests which lead to a caution (tables 5.1, 5.6 and 5.7). Recently revised tables for arrests and the percentage of arrests which lead to a caution for 2003-04 are given in the table.
Also included in the publication are available data for prosecutions by ethnicity in magistrates courtsfor the period requested (table 6.1), and available data for the total number tried in Crown courts by ethnicity, for 2003 (table 6.4) and 2004 (table 6.3). available data for the total number tried in Crown Courts by ethnicity, for 2003 (table 6.4) and 2004 (table 6.3).
Ethnic appearance of person arrested Police force area White Black Asian Other Unknown Total Avon and Somerset 22,011 1,326 332 177 418 24,264 Bedfordshire 10,234 2,268 1,750 81 46 14,379 Cambridgeshire 10,826 624 467 232 176 12,325 Cheshire 13,260 212 98 37 28 13,635 Cleveland 20,370 232 638 144 84 21,468 Cumbria 12,632 38 79 75 8 12,832 Derbyshire 20,419 892 848 92 126 22,377 Devon and Cornwall 27,917 340 182 157 234 28,830 Dorset 11,840 358 102 141 31 12,472 Durham 17,214 97 71 96 164 17,642 Essex 26,326 1,693 515 1,088 291 29,913 Gloucestershire 10,557 543 119 77 213 11,509 Greater Manchester 69,517 4,831 5,046 569 2,633 82,596 Hampshire 40,001 1,499 960 1,296 — 43,756 Hertfordshire 15,358 1,706 988 236 95 18,383 Humberside 24,449 474 362 271 214 25,770 Kent 33,010 1,371 1,307 140 1,026 36,854 Lancashire 42,265 772 1,959 63 2 45,061 Leicestershire 14,961 1,536 2,089 447 1 19,034 Lincolnshire 16,050 201 216 238 82 16,787 London, City of 2,471 1,133 511 151 — 4,266 Merseyside 47,213 1,652 231 268 541 49,905 Metropolitan Police 102,057 58,985 17,010 6,562 640 185,254 Norfolk 14,540 486 134 77 28 15,265 Northamptonshire 11,278 998 316 50 1 12,643 Northumbria 52,278 597 840 285 50 54,050 North Yorkshire 13,966 137 98 137 183 14,521 Nottinghamshire 28,589 2,125 947 1,245 683 33,589 South Yorkshire 32,709 1,892 1,356 420 1 36,378 Staffordshire 23,794 766 845 235 — 25,640 Suffolk 11,631 816 152 106 50 12,755 Surrey 14,998 727 691 176 83 16,675 Sussex 30,785 1,810 750 457 144 33,946 Thames Valley 40,601 4,943 3,466 468 182 49,660 Warwickshire 7,680 329 265 41 72 8,387 West Mercia 20,640 612 518 149 114 22,033 West Midlands 52,514 10,401 8,456 1,483 108 72,962 West Yorkshire 61,164 5,029 7,469 578 215 74,455 Wiltshire 8,231 369 139 61 373 9,173 Dyfed Powys 13,227 69 50 31 30 13,407 Gwent 14,611 205 370 133 172 15,491 North Wales 19,373 100 80 49 236 19,838 South Wales 33,674 1,154 654 412 257 36,151 England and Wales 1,117,241 116,348 63,476 19,231 10,035 1,326,331
Ethnic appearance of person Police force area White Black Asian Total Avon and Somerset 13.4 7.1 19.6 17.9 Bedfordshire 20.4 11.6 14.9 19.1 Cambridgeshire 13.4 9.0 9.4 16.5 Cheshire 20.1 1.4 10.2 19.7 Cleveland 11.8 10.3 5.6 12.1 Cumbria 15.5 18.4 6.3 16.4 Derbyshire 11.5 10.3 9.4 11.8 Devon and Cornwall 24.9 17.9 17.6 24.8 Dorset 13.5 3.1 13.7 13.1 Durham 13.6 4.1 2.8 13.4 Essex 14.8 7.3 10.3 14.0 Gloucestershire 23.3 12.0 20.2 22.5 Greater Manchester 12.9 11.5 15.8 12.7 Hampshire 16.8 9.5 5.7 16.3 Hertfordshire 18.1 11.1 14.5 17.2 Humberside 11.1 3.6 8.0 10.7 Kent 19.5 7.6 8.3 20.8 Lancashire 13.2 12.3 16.3 13.4 Leicestershire 13.5 7.5 12.8 13.1 Lincolnshire 11.5 6.0 6.0 11.4 London, City of 24.3 16.2 19.4 21.5 Merseyside 8.5 8.5 11.7 8.5 Metropolitan Police 17.0 13.6 17.8 16.1 Norfolk 15.3 5.8 20.1 15.2 Northamptonshire 20.4 16.7 23.1 21.5 Northumbria 23.5 17.4 31.0 23.7 North Yorkshire 16.1 13.1 18.4 16.5 Nottinghamshire 13.1 9.8 24.7 13.9 South Yorkshire 9.9 4.9 8.2 10.2 Staffordshire 20.8 15.5 4.7 20.8 Suffolk 26.8 15.0 30.9 26.0 Surrey 27.0 21.5 28.9 26.4 Sussex 22.9 9.1 18.9 21.7 Thames Valley 11.3 7.4 9.4 12.2 Warwickshire 27.5 11.6 23.4 26.9 West Mercia 26.4 15.8 18.0 26.4 West Midlands 19.6 16.9 21.5 20.4 West Yorkshire 13.7 13.3 14.7 13.8 Wiltshire 22.6 17.6 25.2 23.2 Dyfed Powys 31.9 14.5 42.0 32.1 Gwent 22.2 13.2 8.9 21.8 North Wales 15.4 20.0 16.3 15.3 South Wales 13.4 10.4 13.6 13.3 England and Wales 16.6 12.7 16.2 16.6 1 Revised figures. Note: Comparisons based upon the 'Other' and 'Unknown' groups have been excluded due to the small numbers involved.