Annex: BME percentages in police forces in England and Wales and in their local populations
|
Police Force |
% BME in local population |
% BME of police officers (2015) |
|
Avon and Somerset |
6.7 |
2.6 |
|
Bedfordshire |
22.5 |
6.1 |
|
Cambridgeshire |
9.7 |
2.1 |
|
Cheshire |
3.1 |
0.6 |
|
City of London |
21.4 |
6.2 |
|
Cleveland |
5.5 |
1.7 |
|
Cumbria |
1.5 |
1.1 |
|
Derbyshire |
6.7 |
3.4 |
|
Devon and Cornwall |
2.5 |
1.2 |
|
Dorset |
4.0 |
1.3 |
|
Durham |
2.2 |
1.7 |
|
Essex |
6.8 |
2.2 |
|
Gloucestershire |
4.6 |
2.1 |
|
Greater Manchester |
16.2 |
5.0 |
|
Hampshire |
6.7 |
2.5 |
|
Hertfordshire |
12.4 |
4.1 |
|
Humberside |
3.5 |
1.1 |
|
Kent |
6.9 |
3.0 |
|
Lancashire |
9.6 |
3.7 |
|
Leicestershire |
21.6 |
7.3 |
|
Lincolnshire |
2.4 |
1.6 |
|
Merseyside |
5.5 |
3.4 |
|
Metropolitan Police |
40.2 |
11.7 |
|
Norfolk |
3.5 |
1.8 |
|
Northamptonshire |
8.5 |
3.7 |
|
Northumbria |
5.4 |
1.7 |
|
North Yorkshire |
3.4 |
1.1 |
|
Nottinghamshire |
11.2 |
4.4 |
|
South Yorkshire |
9.4 |
3.3 |
|
Staffordshire |
5.9 |
1.9 |
|
Suffolk |
4.8 |
2.4 |
|
Surrey |
9.6 |
3.7 |
|
Sussex |
6.3 |
2.0 |
|
Thames Valley |
15.4 |
5.0 |
|
Warwickshire |
7.3 |
4.8 |
|
West Mercia |
3.8 |
1.9 |
|
West Midlands |
29.9 |
8.6 |
|
West Yorkshire |
18.2 |
5.1 |
|
Wiltshire |
5.5 |
1.6 |
|
Wales |
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|
Dyfed-Powys |
2.0 |
0.7 |
|
Gwent |
3.9 |
1.7 |
|
North Wales |
2.5 |
0.9 |
|
South Wales |
6.6 |
2.0 |
Source: Home Office, Police Workforce, England and Wales, 31 March 2015, Statistical Bulletin 02/15, 16 July 2015 and associated Tables; and data published by The Guardian, 1 January 2016, “The racial gap in recruitment for every police force in the UK” (using ONS data).
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19 May 2016