HL Deb 23 May 1979 vol 400 cc479-80WA
Lord AVEBURY

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will bring up to date the table showing persons arrested for being suspected of frequenting a public place with intent to commit an arrest-able offence by division and ethnic

PERSONS ARRESTED(1) FOR BEING SUSPECTED OF FREQUENTING A PUBLIC PLACE WITH INTENT TO COMMIT AN ARRESTABLE OFFENCE BY DIVISION AND ETHNIC APPEARANCE
Metropolitan Police District:Fourth Quarter 1978 Number of offences
Ethnic appearance
Division Total
White skinned European Dark skinned European Black skinned (including West Indian/African) Indian/Pakistani Chinese/Japanese Arabian/ Egyptian Not Known
A 25 2 4 0 0 0 0 31
B 18 1 24 0 0 2 0 45
C 39 7 65 0 1 0 0 112
D 25 3 41 1 0 1 0 71
E 11 2 6 0 0 0 0 19
F 13 0 5 0 0 0 0 18
G 6 0 3 0 0 0 0 9
H 7 1 3 0 0 0 0 11
I 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
J 10 0 10 1 0 0 0 21
K 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
L 18 0 76 0 0 0 0 94
M 6 2 7 0 0 0 0 15
N 5 0 7 0 0 0 0 12
P 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 8
Q 19 0 14 0 0 0 0 33
R 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 7
S 7 0 1 1 0 0 0 9
T 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
V 10 0 4 0 0 0 0 14
W 11 0 10 2 0 0 0 23
X 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Y 7 0 4 0 0 0 0 11
Z 12 0 12 1 1 0 0 26
TA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MPD 273 18 304 7 2 3 0 607
(1) Persons proceeded against by means of a charge, referral to a juvenile bureau, a caution or in some other way; arrests not followed by any action are not included.

House adjourned at twenty-four minutes before five o'clock.

Wales on 15th April 1979: by type of sentence and country of birth:

appearance, given in an answer of 9th November 1978, giving the same figures for the third and fourth quarters of 1978.

Lord BELSTEAD

Information relating to the third quarter of 1978 was published in theOfficial Report vol. 396, cols. 638–642 on 9th November 1978. The information relating to the fourth quarter of 1978 is given in the following table.