§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there is a continuing advertising campaign for the recruitment of black police officers; and if he will list for the 431W longest convenient period for the Metropolitan Police, Merseyside police, West Midlands police, Thames Valley police and Avon and Somerset authorities, the number of black police officers, their rank and, wherever possible, their ethnic classification.
§ Dr. SummerskillNational police recruitment advertising aims to appeal to all
Metropolitan police Merseyside police West Midlands police Thames Valley police Avon and Somerset police Number serving at 31 December— 1970 … … 8 1 2 1 2 1971 … … 11 2 4 1 2 1972 … … 13 2 5 1 2 1973 … … 19 2 7 2 3 1974 … … 36 2 13 5 4 1975 … … 39 4 18 6 5 1976 … … 72 4 26 3 4 1977 … … 82 5 26 3 5 1978 … … 85* 5 30* 3 6 * Including one sergeant. Details of the country of origin of those serving in the Metropolitan Police are as follows:
West Indies 32 United Kingdom 21 including 1 sergeant India 9 Kenya 7
Uganda 4 Cyprus 2 Guyana 2 St. Helena 2 South Africa 2 Sri Lanka 1 Malaysia 1 Mauritius 1 Germany 1 Details of country of origin are not available centrally for the other forces named.
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Department Total of systems analysis, programming and operating staff Major tasks Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 141 Subsidy payments, payroll, statistics Civil Service Department 290 Payroll, accounting, staff records, bureau work HM Customs and Excise 374 Value Added Tax, statistics Ministry of Defence 2,218 Bill paying, financial and accounting, stock control, payroll, stores codification and cataloguing, personnel records, technical maintenance data, bureau work Department of Education and Science 85 Educational statistics, teachers super-annuation. Department of Employment Group 185 Pay, statistics, Professional and Executive Register, vacancy matching. Department of the Environment 292 Financial statistics, integrated accounting, payroll who are eligible to join the police what ever their ethnic origin and there is no continuing campaign specifically aimed at members of ethnic minority groups. A short campaign in papers circulating amongst these groups was run in 1976, and another such campaign will be run shortly.
The details of officers belonging to ethnic minorities serving are as follows: