HC Deb 14 May 1992 vol 207 cc204-5W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of(a) men and (b) women from ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom serving as police officers in each police force in England and Wales.

Mr. Charles Wardle

At the end of February 1992 there were 1,631 officers from ethnic minorities. The information requested for each force in England and Wales is set out in the table:

Ethnic Minorities
Force Men Women
As at 28 February 1992
Avon and Somerset 18 6
Bedfordshire 27 11
Cambridgeshire 18 8
Cheshire 1 1
Cleveland 10 2
Cumbria 2
Derbyshire 20 4
Devon and Cornwall 2
Dorset 3
Durham 3 1
Dyfed Powys
Essex 20 2
Gloucestershire 10 2
Greater Manchester 104 21
Gwent 7
Hampshire 13 2
Hertfordshire 13 5
Humberside 5 1
Kent 9 2
Lancashire 25 5
Leicestershire 49 5
Lincolnshire 1 2
Merseyside 48 9
Norfolk
Northamptonshire 17 2
Northumbria 12 2
North Wales 1
North Yorkshire 4
Nottinghamshire 41 11
South Wales 20 1
South Yorkshire 24 4
Staffordshire 14 5
Suffolk 4 2
Surrey 12 1
Sussex 12 3
Thames Valley 43 10
Warwickshire 7 2
West Mercia 14 4
West Midlands 144 47
West Yorkshire 72 17
Wiltshire 11 2
City of London 6 2
Metropolitan 431 130
Total 1,297 334