Table 2: Police officer ethnicity( 1) by police force area as at 31 March 2007
Percentage
Police force
White
Mixed
Black or Black British
Asian or Asian British
Chinese or Other ethnic group
Not stated
Avon and Somerset
98
0
1
0
0
0
Bedfordshire
93
1
1
3
0
2
Cambridgeshire
96
1
0
1
0
1
Cheshire
99
1
0
0
0
0
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Cleveland
96
0
0
1
0
2
Cumbria
99
1
0
0
0
0
Derbyshire
96
1
0
2
0
0
Devon and Cornwall
91
0
0
0
0
8
Dorset
99
1
0
0
0
0
Durham
98
1
0
1
0
0
Essex
98
1
0
0
0
0
Gloucestershire
98
1
0
0
0
0
Greater Manchester
96
1
1
1
0
0
Hampshire
90
1
0
1
1
8
Hertfordshire
96
1
0
1
0
1
Humberside
99
0
0
0
0
0
Kent
98
1
0
1
0
0
Lancashire
87
1
0
2
0
11
Leicestershire
93
1
1
3
0
2
Lincolnshire
99
0
0
0
0
0
London, City of
95
1
2
2
0
0
Merseyside
97
1
0
0
1
0
Metropolitan Police
92
1
2
3
1
0
Norfolk
98
1
0
0
0
1
Northamptonshire
87
1
1
1
0
9
Northumbria
98
1
0
0
0
0
North Yorkshire
99
1
0
1
0
0
Nottinghamshire
96
1
1
1
0
0
South Yorkshire
97
0
1
2
0
1
Staffordshire
98
1
1
0
0
0
Suffolk
98
1
0
0
0
0
Surrey
96
2
0
1
0
1
Sussex
99
1
0
0
0
0
Thames Valley
93
2
1
1
0
3
Warwickshire
95
1
0
3
0
1
West Mercia
99
0
0
1
0
0
West Midlands
92
1
2
4
0
0
West Yorkshire
96
1
1
2
0
0
Wiltshire
99
1
0
0
0
0
Dyfed-Powys
99
0
0
0
0
0
Gwent
99
1
0
0
0
0
North Wales
99
0
0
0
0
1
South Wales
86
1
0
0
0
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(1 )Percentage figures based on 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.
