Police: Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of (a) police community support officers and (b) regular police officers fall into each ethnic category in each police force area. (176318)

Figures relating to 31 March 2007 appear in the following tables.

*Number* *of police community support officers and police officers in post 31 March 2007 by police force area: Percentages in each ethnic group*
(a) Police community support officers
Percentage¹
	White	Mixed	Asian or Asian British	Black or black British	Other ethnic group	Not stated	Total²
Avon and Somerset	95.7	1.3	0.7	0.7	0.7	1.0	100.0
Bedfordshire	89.2	3.6	6.0	1.2	0.0	0.0	100.0
Cambridgeshire	92.9	2.2	3.3	1.1	0.0	0.5	100.0
Cheshire	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0
Cleveland	98.2	0.0	1.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0
Cumbria	98.8	1.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0
Derbyshire	95.6	1.1	2.2	1.1	0.0	0.0	100.0
Devon and Cornwall	67.1	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.9	31.3	100.0
Dorset	97.5	0.8	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0
Durham	98.6	0.7	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0
Dyfed-Powys	98.7	0.0	0.0	1.3	0.0	0.0	100.0
Essex	95.3	1.0	1.1	1.0	0.0	1.5	100.0
Gloucestershire	86.6	1.8	2.4	0.0	1.2	8.0	100.0
Greater Manchester	95.5	0.4	2.9	1.2	0.0	0.0	100.0
Gwent	97.1	0.0	1.9	1.0	0.0	0.0	100.0
Hampshire	98.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	1.0	100.0
Hertfordshire	94.6	0.0	2.2	0.9	0.0	2.2	100.0
Humberside	99.0	0.5	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	100.0
Kent	96.1	1.5	1.5	0.0	1.0	0.0	100.0
Lancashire	97.6	0.5	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.8	100.0
Leicestershire	90.3	0.5	9.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0
Lincolnshire	98.6	0.0	0.0	1.4	0.0	0.0	100.0
London, City of	83.3	8.3	5.6	2.8	0.0	0.0	100.0
Merseyside	94.6	3.6	1.5	0.3	0.0	0.0	100.0
Metropolitan Police	67.4	3.8	12.1	11.3	4.1	1.3	100.0
Norfolk	97.2	0.0	1.1	0.6	1.1	0.0	100.0
Northamptonshire	93.0	3.9	0.8	2.3	0.0	0.0	100.0
Northumbria	98.0	1.2	0.4	0.0	0.4	0.0	100.0
North Wales	95.9	0.7	1.4	0.0	0.0	2.1	100.0
North Yorkshire	99.3	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	100.0
Nottinghamshire	96.1	0.9	2.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	100.0
South Wales	98.3	0.0	0.8	0.0	0.3	0.6	100.0
South Yorkshire	95.1	0.0	1.2	3.0	0.3	0.3	100.0
Staffordshire	96.1	1.0	2.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	100.0
Suffolk	99.2	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0
Surrey	93.1	0.0	3.5	1.0	0.5	2.0	100.0
Sussex	94.8	1.1	0.3	0.3	0.7	2.8	100.0
Thames Valley	93.0	1.9	4.2	0.5	0.0	0.5	100.0
Warwickshire	94.5	0.0	3.9	0.8	0.0	0.8	100.0
West Mercia	92.6	0.9	0.9	0.5	0.0	5.1	100.0
West Midlands	85.0	2.3	9.1	2.3	0.5	0.8	100.0
West Yorkshire	95.1	0.3	3.9	0.6	0.1	0.0	100.0
Wiltshire	98.3	0.8	0.0	0.8	0.0	0.0	100.0

England and Wales	86.8	1.7	5.0	3.6	1.3	1.6	100.0

*(b) Police officers*
Percentage¹
	White	Mixed	Black or black British	Asian or Asian British	Other ethnic group	Not stated	Total²
Avon and Somerset	98.4	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.0	100.0
Bedfordshire	93.1	1.4	0.9	2.9	0.1	1.7	100.0
Cambridgeshire	96.3	0.9	0.5	0.9	0.1	1.4	100.0
Cheshire	98.6	0.6	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.5	100.0
Cleveland	96.0	0.3	0.0	1.1	0.1	2.5	100.0
Cumbria	98.9	0.5	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.0	100.0
Derbyshire	96.5	0.8	0.4	2.1	0.1	0.0	100.0
Devon and Cornwall	91.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.1	8.3	100.0
Dorset	98.7	0.7	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	100.0
Durham	98.5	0.7	0.1	0.6	0.1	0.0	100.0
Dyfed Powys	99.2	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.0	100.0
Essex	98.0	1.0	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.1	100.0
Gloucestershire	97.9	0.7	0.5	0.2	0.4	0.4	100.0
Greater Manchester	96.1	1.5	0.6	1.5	0.4	0.0	100.0
Gwent	98.5	0.9	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.0	100.0
Hampshire	90.2	0.5	0.3	0.6	0.5	7.9	100.0
Hertfordshire	96.4	1.0	0.5	0.9	0.2	1.0	100.0
Humberside	99.0	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.0	100.0
Kent	98.0	0.8	0.3	0.6	0.3	0.0	100.0
Lancashire	86.6	1.0	0.1	1.6	0.1	10.5	100.0
Leicestershire	92.6	1.3	1.0	3.5	0.0	1.6	100.0
Lincolnshire	98.6	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.1	0.0	100.0
London, City of	94.9	1.4	1.6	2.0	0.1	0.0	100.0
Merseyside	97.3	1.4	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.0	100.0
Metropolitan Police	91.9	1.4	2.4	2.8	1.3	0.2	100.0
Norfolk	98.3	0.7	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.5	100.0
North Wales	98.6	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.8	100.0
North Yorkshire	98.7	0.6	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.1	100.0
Northamptonshire	87.4	1.1	1.5	1.0	0.2	8.8	100.0
Northumbria	98.4	0.6	0.1	0.4	0.3	0.3	100.0
Nottinghamshire	96.5	0.9	0.9	1.2	0.2	0.3	100.0
South Wales	86.2	1.1	0.1	0.4	0.2	12.0	100.0
South Yorkshire	96.6	0.1	1.1	1.6	0.1	0.6	100.0
Staffordshire	98.2	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	100.0
Suffolk	98.1	1.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.0	100.0
Surrey	95.7	1.7	0.4	0.8	0.3	1.1	100.0
Sussex	98.6	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.5	0.0	100.0
Thames Valley	92.9	1.5	0.8	1.3	0.2	3.4	100.0
Warwickshire	94.7	0.6	0.3	3.1	0.2	1.0	100.0
West Mercia	98.6	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.0	100.0
West Midlands	92.4	1.4	1.6	3.9	0.1	0.4	100.0
West Yorkshire	95.7	0.8	0.7	2.3	0.3	0.2	100.0
Wiltshire	98.6	0.6	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.0	100.0

England and Wales	94.7	1.0	0.9	1.5	0.4	1.4	100.0
¹ Percentages are calculated on the numbers of full-time equivalent officers. ² Some percentages may not add precisely to 100.0 because of rounding to one decimal place.

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008