Police: Recruitment

(asked on 19th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what strategies have been put in place to encourage under-represented groups to join the police.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 27th October 2020

The police officer workforce is more diverse than ever before. The most recently published Police Officer Uplift data show that as at 30 June 2020 Black Asian and Minority Ethnic officers represented 7.4% of all police officers.

The Home Secretary has been clear that forces must do more to become representative of the communities they serve. Attracting a broad range of talent, cultures and backgrounds to a career in policing is a core ambition in our drive to recruit 20,000 extra police officers.

We are supporting forces with a variety of attraction and recruitment strategies, whilst delivering a campaign that’s been designed to reach the widest and most diverse audience possible including those who have never considered a policing career.

Sharing best practice, engagement with police associations, upskilling recruitment teams and enhanced data capture are just some of the efforts being made to improve police diversity as part of the police uplift.

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