Lord Sheikh asked Her Majesty’s Government:
How many black minority ethnic police officers have been recruited by each police force in each of the past five calendar years.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): I refer the noble Lord to the Answer given in the table attached.
| Police Officer Minority Ethnic Recruits1 to Police Forces from 2003-04 to 2007-082 (FTE)3 |
| |
2003-04 |
2004-05 |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
2007-08 |
| Avon and Somerset |
4 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
| Bedfordshire |
5 |
12 |
9 |
0 |
10 |
| Cambridgeshire |
6 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Cheshire |
6 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
| Cleveland |
2 |
2 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| Cumbria |
4 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Derbyshire |
1 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
6 |
| Devon and Cornwall |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
| Dorset |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Durham |
4 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Dyfed-Powys |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
| Essex |
3 |
7 |
7 |
9 |
10 |
| Gloucestershire |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| Greater Manchester |
41 |
32 |
11 |
13 |
22 |
| Gwent |
2 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
| Hampshire |
7 |
5 |
13 |
9 |
4 |
| Hertfordshire |
14 |
5 |
8 |
6 |
11 |
| Humberside |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Kent |
4 |
8 |
6 |
8 |
23 |
| Lancashire |
15 |
6 |
5 |
11 |
10 |
| Leicestershire |
18 |
6 |
9 |
17 |
13 |
| Lincolnshire |
1 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| London, City of |
7 |
8 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
| Merseyside |
7 |
10 |
7 |
19 |
5 |
| Metropolitan Police |
500 |
252 |
166 |
215 |
193 |
| Norfolk |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Northamptonshire |
7 |
6 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
| Northumbria |
1 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
| North Wales |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| North Yorkshire |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Nottinghamshire |
7 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
| South Wales |
3 |
3 |
5 |
7 |
2 |
| South Yorkshire |
9 |
5 |
5 |
7 |
4 |
| Staffordshire |
2 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
| Suffolk |
3 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
| Surrey |
3 |
1 |
7 |
19 |
12 |
| Sussex |
4 |
6 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
| Thames Valley |
20 |
14 |
15 |
12 |
17 |
| Warwickshire |
1 |
5 |
10 |
3 |
0 |
| West Mercia |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
| West Midlands |
49 |
43 |
54 |
35 |
45 |
| West Yorkshire |
16 |
35 |
8 |
15 |
18 |
| Wiltshire |
5 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Total |
795 |
502 |
396 |
441 |
430 |
1. Recruits included those officers joining as police standard direct recruits and those who were previously special constables. This excludes police officers on transfers from other forces and those rejoining.
3. Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.