§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if Plessey electronic communications equipment is used by the Prison Service and the Metropolitan Police; and what was the total value of such equipment acquired by each service in each of the last five years.
498WPolice at the end of 1975 and beginning of 1976; and what was the cost of this campaign and its results.
§ Dr. SummerskillFor this special advertising campaign advertisements were placed in the ethnic minority Press and a number of London newspapers. The total cost was £39,000. It produced 700 inquiries and 400 applications to join the Metropolitan Police. Since the end of 1975 the number of coloured officers serving in the Metropolitan Police has risen from 39 to 78.
§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total cost and what the cost per applicant of the national Press campaign to recruit coloured persons to serve in police forces.
§ Dr. SummerskillThe cost of the national campaign in the ethnic minority Press between the middle of June and the middle of August 1976 was £8,500. The resulting cost per applicant was £265.63.