HC Deb 22 March 1995 vol 257 cc202-5W
Ms Janet Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will give details of the number of(a) women and (b) men employed at each grade within the police service, for each police authority for every year since 1989 with details of their responsibilities. [14862]

Mr. Maclean

Information on the duties to which officers are assigned could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Tables giving the information requested on police ranks have been placed in the Library.

Ms Janet Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of Asian and Afro-Caribbean officers, both male and female in each police authority, in each year since 1989; and what are the figures as a percentage of officers employed in each area. [14398]

Mr. Maclean

The information for 1992 and 1993 is provided in the table. Figures for earlier years are not held centrally.

1992
1 2 3 4 5
Total number of police officers Number of black officers Black officers percentage Number of Asian officers Asian officers percentage
Force M F M F M F M F M F
Avon and Somerset 2,745.00 316.00 10.00 5.00 0.33 0.16 2.00 0.00 0.07 0.00
Bedfordshire 955.00 166.00 13.00 8.00 1.16 0.71 9.00 3.00 0.80 0.27
Cambridgeshire 1,087.00 150.00 11.00 5.00 0.89 0.40 6.00 0.00 0.49 0.00
Cheshire 1,670.00 231.00 1.00 1.00 0.05 0.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
City of London 685.00 93.00 6.00 2.00 0.77 0.26 1.00 0.00 0.13 0.00
Cleveland 1,317.00 184.00 2.00 0.00 0.13 0.00 9.00 2.00 0.60 0.13
Cumbria 1,048.00 148.00 1.00 0.00 0.08 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.08 0.00
Derbyshire 1,604.00 206.00 8.00 2.00 0.44 0.11 16.00 3.00 0.88 0.17
Devon and Cornwall 2,578.00 337.00 3.00 0.00 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Dorset 1,154.00 164.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.15 0.00
Durham 1,245.00 131.00 3.00 1.00 0.22 0.07 1.00 0.00 0.07 0.00
Dyfed-Powys 848.00 109.00 1.00 1.00 0.10 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Essex 2,552.00 365.00 9.00 1.00 0.31 0.03 9.00 0.00 0.31 0.00
Gloucestershire 1,021.00 127.00 5.00 1.00 0.44 0.09 3.00 0.00 0.26 0.00
Greater Manchester 6,122.00 933.00 106.00 21.00 1.50 0.30 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Gwent 894.00 106.00 2.00 0.00 0.20 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.20 0.00
Hampshire 2,883.00 402.00 6.00 2.00 0.18 0.06 7.00 1.00 0.21 0.03
Hertfordshire 1,430.00 258.00 6.00 1.00 0.36 0.06 3.00 2.00 0.18 0.12
Humberside 1,839.00 194.00 2.00 0.00 0.10 0.00 3.00 0.00 0.15 0.00
Kent 2,666.00 440.00 2.00 0.00 0.06 0.00 7.00 2.00 0.23 0.06
Lancashire 2,813.00 392.00 3.00 3.00 0.09 0.09 14.00 2.00 0.44 0.06
Leicestershire 1,601.00 229.00 18.00 2.00 0.98 0.11 19.00 2.00 1.04 0.11
Lincolnshire 1,064.00 127.00 1.00 0.00 0.08 0.00 2.00 1.00 0.17 0.08
Merseyshire 4,039.00 614.00 25.00 6.00 0.54 0.13 18.00 1.00 0.39 0.02
Norfolk 1,290.00 136.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
North Wales 1,203.00 153.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
North Yorkshire 1,258.00 150.00 1.00 0.00 0.07 0.00 4.00 0.00 0.28 0.00
Northamptonshire 1,067.,00 136.00 10.00 2.00 0.83 0.17 6.00 0.00 0.50 0.00
Northumbria 3,196.00 387.00 3.00 1.00 0.08 0.03 7.00 2.00 0.20 0.06
Nottinghamshire 2,075.00 246.00 22.00 7.00 0.95 0.30 16.00 2.00 0.69 0.09
South Wales 2,873.00 288.00 18.00 1.00 0.57 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
South Yorkshire 2,651.00 349.00 18.00 2.00 0.60 0.07 10.00 1.00 0.33 0.03
Staffordshire 1,867.00 302.00 18.00 6.00 0.,83 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Suffolk 1,091.00 145.00 3.00 2.00 0.24 0.16 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.16
Surrey 1,435.00 222.00 10.00 1.00 0.60 0.06 4.00 1.00 0.24 0.06
Sussex 2,653.00 326.00 7.00 3.00 0.23 0.10 2.00 1.00 0.07 0.034
Thames Valley 3,222.00 541.00 21.00 8.00 0.56 0.21 24.00 4.00 0.64 0.11
Warwickshire 857.00 123.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.10 7.00 2.00 0.71 0.20
West Mercia 1,804.00 256.00 8.00 2.00 0.39 0.10 3.00 1.00 0.15 0.05
West Midlands 5,908.00 1,052.00 154.00 49.00 2.21 0.70 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
West Yorkshire 4,438.00 629.00 24.00 10.00 0.147 0.20 43.00 5.00 0.85 0.10
Wiltshire 1,010.00 157.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.17 7.00 0.00 0.60 0.00
Provincial total 85,758.00 12,020.00 561.00 159.00 0.57 0.16 267.00 40.00 0.27 0.04
Metropolitan Police 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
England and Wales total2 85,758.00 12,020.00 561.00 159.00 0.44 0.13 267.00 40.00 0.21 0.03
1 Figures not available centrally.
2 Excluding the Metropolitan Police.

1993
1 2 3 4 5
Total number of police officers Number of black officers Black officers percentage Number of Asian officers Asian officers percentage
Force M F M F M F M F M F
Avon and Somerset 2,688.00 336.00 13.00 5.00 0.43 0.17 3.00 0.00 0.10 0.00
Bedfordshire 994.00 173.00 11.00 6.00 0.94 0.51 7.00 4.00 0.60 0.34
Cambridgeshire 1,073.00 152.00 8.00 6.00 0.65 0.49 6.00 1.00 0.49 0.08
Cheshire 1,647.00 226.00 1.00 1.00 0.05 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
City of London 677.00 115.00 7.00 2.00 0.88 0.25 1.00 0.00 0.13 0.00
Cleveland 1,248.00 166.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 12.00 2.00 0.85 0.14
Cumbria 1,030.00 154.00 1.00 0.00 0.08 0.00 1.00 1.00 0.08 0.08
Derbyshire 1,581.00 209.00 6.00 1.00 0.34 0.06 15.00 3.00 0.84 0.17
Devon and Cornwall 2,552.00 353.00 4.00 0.00 0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Dorset 1,132.00 160.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.15 0.00
Durham 1,233.00 154.00 3.00 1.00 0.22 0.07 3.00 0.00 0.22 0.00
Dyfed-Powys 815.00 151.00 1.00 1.00 0.10 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Essex 2,548.00 399.00 11.00 2.00 0.37 0.07 10.00 0.00 0.34 0.00

1993
1 2 3 4 5
Total number of police officers Number of black officers Black officers percentage Number of Asian officers Asian officers percentage
Force M F M F M F M F M F
Gloucestershire 1,004.00 136.00 5.00 2.00 0.44 0.18 3.00 1.00 0.26 0.09
Greater Manchester 6,058.00 987.00 107.00 22.00 1.52 0.31 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Gwent 877.00 112.00 4.00 0.00 0.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Hampshire 2,844.00 426.00 7.00 2.00 0.21 0.06 9.00 1.00 0.28 0.03
Hertfordshire 1,418.00 261.00 4.00 3.00 0.24 0.18 5.00 2.00 0.30 0.12
Humberside 1,817.00 216.00 3.00 0.00 0.15 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.10 0.00
Kent 2,691.00 462.00 3.00 0.00 0.10 0.00 8.00 1.00 0.25 0.03
Lancashire 2,735.00 402.00 4.00 3.00 0.13 0.10 14.00 2.00 0.45 0.06
Leicestershire 1,589.00 248.00 19.00 2.00 1.03 0.11 25.00 2.00 1.36 0.11
Lincolnshire 1,064.00 140.00 2.00 0.00 0.17 0.00 2.00 2.00 0.17 0.17
Merseyside 4,006.00 656.00 27.00 8.00 0.58 0.17 20.00 1.00 0.43 0.02
Norfolk 1,283.00 151.10 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
North Wales 1,184.00 157.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
North Yorkshire 1,182.00 152.00 1.00 0.00 0.07 0.00 4.00 1.00 0.30 0.07
Northamptonshire 1,044.00 137.00 9.00 2.00 0.76 0.17 7.00 0.00 0.59 0.00
Northumbria 3,179.00 412.00 1.00 1.00 0.03 0.03 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.03
Nottinghamshire 2,058.00 280.50 21.00 6.00 0.90 0.26 14.00 2.00 0.60 0.09
South Wales 2,854.00 288.00 22.00 1.00 0.70 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
South Yorkshire 2,630.00 385.00 24.00 7.00 0.80 0.23 9.00 0.00 0.30 0.00
Staffordshire 1,871.00 328.00 13.00 4.00 0.59 0.18 7.00 3.00 0.32 0.14
Suffolk 1,061.00 154.00 4.00 3.00 0.33 0.25 1.00 1.00 0.08 0.08
Surrey 1,422.00 228.00 11.00 1.00 0.67 0.06 6.00 1.00 0.36 0.06
Sussex 2,628.00 349.00 2.00 5.00 0.07 0.17 3.00 1.00 0.10 0.03
Thames Valley 3,256.00 567.00 24.00 6.00 0.63 0.16 20.00 5.00 0.52 0.13
Warwickshire 862.00 141.00 1.00 1.00 0.10 0.10 9.00 3.00 0.90 0.30
West Mercia 1,790.00 266.00 15.00 4.00 0.73 0.19 1.00 0.00 0.05 0.00
West Midlands 5,833.00 1,110.95 81.00 32.00 1.17 0.46 70.00 18.00 1.01 0.26
West Yorkshire 4,344.00 642.00 23.00 10.00 0.46 0.20 42.00 6.00 0.84 0.12
Wiltshire 1,018.00 158.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.17 7.00 0.00 0.60 0.00
Provincial total 84,820.15 12,700.75 503.00 152.00 0.52 0.16 348.00 65.00 0.36 0.07
Metropolitan Police 23,445,30 3,697.15 215.00 79.00 0.79 0.29 142.00 36.00 0.52 0.13
England and Wales total 108,265.5 16.397.90 718.00 231.00 0.58 0.19 490.00 101.00 0.39 0.08

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