§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any Commissioner of Police or any of his officers in the last five years has prepared any summary, however local or limited or however statistically unreliable, of stops followed by no further action or followed by arrest and, respectively, no further action, charge, referral to a juvenile bureau, caution, some other process, or some other formal or informal police action which is recorded as relating to subjects whose ethnic appearance may be described as brown, black or negroid, in accordance with the Metropolitan Police race code; and if he will give full details of any such summaries.
§ Mr. BrittanThe information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate expense.
§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if any metropolitan Commissioner of Police or any of his officers during the last seven years has prepared any summary, however local or limited or however statistically unreliable, of the number of major crimes and the number of minor crimes recorded by, reported to, or discovered by police action or investigation which are recorded as relating to subjects, suspects, prisoners, or any other category of person coming to the attention of the police, whose ethnic appearance may be described as brown, black or negroid, or according to the Metropolitan Police race code; and if he will give full details of any such summaries.
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