Police: Career Structure

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were promoted to the rank of chief inspector in each of the last three years; and what proportion were (a) members of an ethnic minority, broken down by ethnic minority, and (b) female. (141352)

[holding answer 12 June 2007]: The available data are given in the following table.

*Police officers promoted to chief inspector rank (headcount) by ethnicity*¹ *and gender from 2003-04 to 2005-06*²
	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Number of promotions	486	376	331

Percentage of female promotions from total	10.5	14.6	14.8
Percentage of ethnic minority promotions from total	3.3	3.2	3.6

Relative proportion of ethnic minority promotions as a percentage of total ethnic minority promotions³
Mixed	12.5	41.7	50.0
Black or black British	31.3	16.7	16.7
Asian or Asian British	50.0	33.3	33.3
Chinese or other	6.3	8.3	0.0
¹ There were also a number of cases where the ethnicity of the officer was “not stated”. ² Data refer to the number of officers (headcount) promoted during the year. ³ Rounded percentages that may not sum to total.

Volume 461: debated on Thursday 14 June 2007