§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his recently announced increases in police manpower are in every case additional to the new recruits needed to fill the vacancies created by the premature departure of police officers at all ranks.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggYes.
§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing, for each constabulary in England and Wales (a) the numbers of black and Asian officers, (b) this figure as a percentage of total force strength and (c) the numbers of black and Asian officers who have left before completing 30 years.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThere is no central record of the numbers of black and Asian officers who have left police forces before completing 30 years' service. The other information requested is as follows: 761W
Police force Number of black-Asian officers in post 30 June 1988 Percentage of force strength at 30 June 1988 Avon and Somerset 15 0.50 Bedfordshire 27 2.70 Cambridgeshire 19 1.63 Cheshire 1 0.05 Cleveland 4 0.27 Cumbria 1 0.09 Derbyshire 19 1.06 Devon and Cornwall 2 0.07 Dorset 3 0.24 Durham 2 0.15 Dyfed.Powys 0 0.00 Essex 14 0.51 Gloucestershire 8 0.70 Greater Manchester 78 1.13 Gwent 2 0.20 Hampshire 7 0.23 Hertfordshire 17 1.06 Humberside 3 0.15 Kent 15 0.51 Lancashire 7 0.22 Leicestershire 40 2.29 Lincolnshire 1 0.08 Merseyside 31 0.66 Norfolk 0 0.00 Northamptonshire 14 1.28 Northumbria 0 0.00 North Wales 1 0.08 North Yorkshire 1 0.07 Nottinghamshire 38 1.68 South Wales 16 0.51 South Yorkshire 19 0.65 Staffordshire 11 0.51 Suffolk 0 0.00 Surrey 5 0.30 Sussex 7 0.24 Thames Valley 46 1.30 Warwickshire 0 0.00 West Mercia 14 0.72 West Midlands 141 2.13 West Yorkshire 70 1.35 Wiltshire 8 0.73 City of London 1 0.13 Metropolitan 417 1.51