Written question asked by Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 21 July 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 10 October 2005. It was answered by Hazel Blears (Labour) on Monday, 12 September 2005 on behalf of the Home Office.

Police

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there were in (a) the Metropolitan Police and (b) the City of London Police in each year since 1997, broken down by ethnicity; and what percentage of the total force this represented in each case.

Answer

The figures are provided in the following table. Data is available only from 1998 onwards.

Number and percentage of minority ethnic police officers in the Metropolitan police and the City of London police by year
	Metropolitan police			City of London police
As at31 March.:	Number of minority ethnic police officers	Percentage of total officer strength	Number of minority ethnic police officers	Percentage of total officer strength
2005	2,179	7.0	43	4.9
2004	1,976	6.6	34	4.0
2003	1,574	5.6	28	3.5
2002	1,286	4.9	24	3.1
2001	1,049	4.2	18	2.6
2000	1,009	4.0	17	2.3
1999	884	3.4	17	2.2
1998	861	3.3	20	2.4

Secondary information