HC Deb 31 October 2000 vol 355 cc429-30W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of police officers in each force area are women. [134389]

Mr. Charles Clarke

On 31 March 2000 the percentage of women officers in each force in England and Wales was as follows:

Police force Percentage of officers who are female
Avon and Somerset 14
Bedfordshire 18
Cambridgeshire 15
Cheshire 16
City of London 13
Cleveland 16
Cumbria 16
Derbyshire 14
Devon and Cornwall 16
Dorset 16
Durham 18
Dyfed Powys 14
Essex 17
Gloucestershire 18
Greater Manchester 18
Gwent 16
Hampshire 17
Hertfordshire 19

Police force Percentage of officers who are female
Humberside 15
Kent 18
Lancashire 17
Leicestershire 16
Lincolnshire 13
Merseyside 16
Metropolitan Police 16
Norfolk 15
Northamptonshire 15
Northumbria 16
North Wales 16
North Yorkshire 14
Nottinghamshire 14
South Wales 14
South Yorkshire 17
Staffordshire 20
Suffolk 16
Surrey 17
Sussex 16
Thames Valley 17
Warwickshire 15
West Mercia 16
West Midlands 22
West Yorkshire 16
Wiltshire 17
Total England and Wales 17

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