Community Support Officers: Greater London

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. (195604)

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.

Volume 475: debated on Monday 28 April 2008