HC Deb 29 March 1996 vol 274 cc792-3W
Mr. Devlin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were stopped and searched by the police in 1994–95. [24189]

Mr. Maclean

The figures of people stopped and searched in 1994–95 are as follows:

Searches of persons under section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 by ethnic group
Searches made:
Police force area of white persons of ethnic minority persons
Avon and Somerset 5,517 558
Bedfordshire 1,562 431
Cambridgeshire 2,463 178
Cheshire 910 24
City of London 2,730 864
Cleveland 5,186 117
Cumbria 7,635 61
Derbyshire 6,690 247
Devon and Cornwall 1,179 6
Dorset 2,485 35
Durham 3,046 42
Dyfed Powys 8,616 33
Essex 4,747 167
Gloucestershire 3,681 296
Greater Manchester 40,753 3,749
Gwent 3,210 186
Hampshire 3,128 161
Hertfordshire 4,262 450
Humberside 2,068 40
Kent 3,391 139
Lancashire 8,686 577
Leicestershire 15,485 1,972
Lincolnshire 2,096 20
Merseyside 13,934 579
Metropolitan Police 189,928 112,763
Norfolk 7,767 89
North Wales 12,619 40
North Yorkshire 2,334 35
Northamptonshire 3,674 179
Northumbria 18,903 145
Nottinghamshire 2,233 218
South Wales 5,081 277
South Yorkshire 7,322 343
Staffordshire 2,132 139
Suffolk 3,195 65
Surrey 13,830 1,014
Sussex 5,601 191
Thames Valley 6,012 915
Warwickshire 4,836 260
West Mercia 8,949 464
West Midlands 5,616 2,805
West Yorkshire 3,708 609
Wiltshire 2,139 96