HC Deb 11 November 1998 vol 319 cc196-7W
Mr. Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the numbers of police officers in each police force area broken down by grade and indicating for each grade how many are of Asian origin. [59073]

Mr. Boateng

The information is set out in the table. Further information on ethnic minority staff in the police service can be obtained in Home Office Statistical Bulletin "Police Service Personnel" (Issue 17/98) issued on 3 September 1998, a copy of which is in the Library.

Total police force strength and total Asian officers, by rank, as at 31 March 1998
Inspector Sergeant Constable All ranks
Police force Total Asian Total Asian Total Asian Total Asian
Avon and Somerset 150 449 2,308 6 2,976 6
Bedfordshire 57 1 147 1 843 14 1,079 16
Cambridgeshire 64 185 1,014 6 1,291 6
Cheshire 92 293 1,601 2,042 0
City of London 52 115 634 825 0
Cleveland 77 226 1 1,146 12 1,483 13
Cumbria 54 168 911 2 1,164 2
Derbyshire 89 1 273 5 1,363 15 1,772 21
Devon and Cornwall 138 420 2,323 1 2,962 1
Dorset 66 201 1,003 1 1,310 1
Durham 75 211 1,184 4 1,515 4
Dyfed-Powys 48 173 749 1,002 0
Essex 134 452 2 2,264 6 2,929 9
Gloucestershire 53 162 861 7 1,104 7
Greater Manchester 352 1 1,008 12 5,416 47 6,949 60
Gwent 58 193 951 1,233 0
Hampshire 162 510 3 2,737 9 3,490 12
Hertfordshire 96 264 1,328 5 1,740 5
Humberside 109 297 1,565 6 2,021 6
Kent 162 461 2 2,548 12 3,251 14
Lancashire 174 516 2 2,504 19 3,257 22
Leicestershire 93 260 9 1,587 36 1,983 45
Lincolnshire 65 182 905 2 1,191 2
Merseyside 186 1 628 3,293 26 4,216 27
Metropolitan Police 1,186 5 4,164 14 20,156 147 26,094 166
Norfolk 67 1 207 1,115 2 1,430 3
Northamptonshire 54 1 164 1 925 6 1,169 8
Northumbria 185 529 1 2,961 3 3,769 4
North Wales 69 226 1,055 1,396 0
North Yorkshire 65 1 215 1,053 3 1,367 4
Nottinghamshire 114 1 331 2 1,831 18 2,323 22
South Wales 155 1 439 1 2,309 6 2,986 9
South Yorkshire 156 479 4 2,459 27 3,182 31
Staffordshire 121 329 1,782 8 2,292 8
Suffolk 57 171 927 6 1,186 6
Surrey 88 242 1,237 9 1,608 9
Sussex 158 465 2 2,343 2 3,038 4
Thames Valley 188 1 564 5 2,937 22 3,776 28
Warwickshire 47 1 130 3 724 15 924 19
West Mercia 115 290 1,554 9 2,010 9
West Midlands 319 2 984 10 5,731 111 7,156 123
West Yorkshire 245 1 722 7 4,069 55 5,155 64
Wiltshire 60 175 888 2 1,156 2
Total strength 6,052 19 18,616 87 97,094 687 124,798 798