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Police: Manpower
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of (a) police community support officers and (b) regular police officers fall into each ethnic category in each police force area. [176318]
Mr. McNulty:
Figures relating to 31 March 2007 appear in the following tables.
| Number of police community support officers and police officers in post 31 March 2007 by police force area: Percentages in each ethnic group |
| (a) Police community support officers |
| Percentage( 1) |
| | White | Mixed | Asian or Asian British | Black or black British | Other ethnic group | Not stated | Total( 2) |
|
Avon and Somerset
|
95.7
|
1.3
|
0.7
|
0.7
|
0.7
|
1.0
|
100.0
|
|
Bedfordshire
|
89.2
|
3.6
|
6.0
|
1.2
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Cambridgeshire
|
92.9
|
2.2
|
3.3
|
1.1
|
0.0
|
0.5
|
100.0
|
|
Cheshire
|
100.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Cleveland
|
98.2
|
0.0
|
1.8
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Cumbria
|
98.8
|
1.2
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Derbyshire
|
95.6
|
1.1
|
2.2
|
1.1
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Devon and Cornwall
|
67.1
|
0.3
|
0.0
|
0.3
|
0.9
|
31.3
|
100.0
|
|
Dorset
|
97.5
|
0.8
|
1.6
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Durham
|
98.6
|
0.7
|
0.7
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Dyfed-Powys
|
98.7
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
1.3
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Essex
|
95.3
|
1.0
|
1.1
|
1.0
|
0.0
|
1.5
|
100.0
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
86.6
|
1.8
|
2.4
|
0.0
|
1.2
|
8.0
|
100.0
|
|
Greater Manchester
|
95.5
|
0.4
|
2.9
|
1.2
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Gwent
|
97.1
|
0.0
|
1.9
|
1.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Hampshire
|
98.3
|
0.3
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.3
|
1.0
|
100.0
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
94.6
|
0.0
|
2.2
|
0.9
|
0.0
|
2.2
|
100.0
|
|
Humberside
|
99.0
|
0.5
|
0.0
|
0.5
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Kent
|
96.1
|
1.5
|
1.5
|
0.0
|
1.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Lancashire
|
97.6
|
0.5
|
1.1
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.8
|
100.0
|
|
Leicestershire
|
90.3
|
0.5
|
9.3
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
98.6
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
1.4
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
London, City of
|
83.3
|
8.3
|
5.6
|
2.8
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Merseyside
|
94.6
|
3.6
|
1.5
|
0.3
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Metropolitan Police
|
67.4
|
3.8
|
12.1
|
11.3
|
4.1
|
1.3
|
100.0
|
|
Norfolk
|
97.2
|
0.0
|
1.1
|
0.6
|
1.1
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
93.0
|
3.9
|
0.8
|
2.3
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Northumbria
|
98.0
|
1.2
|
0.4
|
0.0
|
0.4
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
North Wales
|
95.9
|
0.7
|
1.4
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
2.1
|
100.0
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
99.3
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.7
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
96.1
|
0.9
|
2.5
|
0.5
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
South Wales
|
98.3
|
0.0
|
0.8
|
0.0
|
0.3
|
0.6
|
100.0
|
|
South Yorkshire
|
95.1
|
0.0
|
1.2
|
3.0
|
0.3
|
0.3
|
100.0
|
|
Staffordshire
|
96.1
|
1.0
|
2.5
|
0.5
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Suffolk
|
99.2
|
0.8
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Surrey
|
93.1
|
0.0
|
3.5
|
1.0
|
0.5
|
2.0
|
100.0
|
|
Sussex
|
94.8
|
1.1
|
0.3
|
0.3
|
0.7
|
2.8
|
100.0
|
|
Thames Valley
|
93.0
|
1.9
|
4.2
|
0.5
|
0.0
|
0.5
|
100.0
|
|
Warwickshire
|
94.5
|
0.0
|
3.9
|
0.8
|
0.0
|
0.8
|
100.0
|
|
West Mercia
|
92.6
|
0.9
|
0.9
|
0.5
|
0.0
|
5.1
|
100.0
|
|
West Midlands
|
85.0
|
2.3
|
9.1
|
2.3
|
0.5
|
0.8
|
100.0
|
|
West Yorkshire
|
95.1
|
0.3
|
3.9
|
0.6
|
0.1
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
|
Wiltshire
|
98.3
|
0.8
|
0.0
|
0.8
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
100.0
|
| | | | | | | | |
|
England and Wales
|
86.8
|
1.7
|
5.0
|
3.6
|
1.3
|
1.6
|
100.0
|
