Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of police officers are from minority ethnic communities.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the ethnicity of the police officers on an annual basis. The latest data show that as at 31 March 2017, 6.3% of police officers in the 43 police forces in England and Wales were from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds.

The latest available data are published in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales, 31 March 2017’ statistical bulletin:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017

Data, broken down by Police Force Area, can be found in Table D1 of the accompanying data tables.

The data can also be found on the police.uk website:

https://www.police.uk/metropolitan/E05000148/performance/diversity/