Thread by @gmhales

I wasn't aware until yesterday that #policeworkforce data on police officers in E&W are now published with a detailed breakdown of their ethnicity (18+1 categories).

Here's the full breakdown as at Dec 2021, in numbers and percentages.

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Here's Asian representation - this is the % of police officers in each force.

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Here's Black representation, again by force. Note the importance of police officers with mixed Black/White heritage - and especially Black Caribbean/White heritage - to overall Black representation.

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A reminder that 47% of people in E&W with Black or Black/White mixed heritage live in London

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And here's a link to a recent thread in which I examine the contribution of people with mixed heritage to Black and Asian representation in the police service.

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And here's White representation. I've included the data on 'not stated' and 'prefer not to say' here as I strongly suspect the vast majority will relate to White officers (e.g. see D&C and Dyfed-Powys).

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Source for the detailed police officer ethnicity data (not published for police staff, PCSOs etc): Home Office Police officer uplift, England & Wales, quarterly update to Dec 2021: Workforce open data table new recruits assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… via gov.uk/government/sta…

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Finally, here's a link to my thread from yesterday looking at female representation

#policeworkforce

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Adding the breakdown of police officer ethnicity published by the Metropolitan Police, because the categories are slightly different. The use of Black British (and relatively few Black Other) seems important. Note the broken horizontal x-axis.

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