Metropolitan Police

(asked on 24th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were recruited by the Metropolitan Police Service in each year since 2008; and what proportion of such officers were (i) female and (ii) black and minority ethnic.


Answered by
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Mike Penning
This question was answered on 30th June 2015

Table 1 shows the number of police officers recruited by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), and the proportion that were female or black and minority ethnic (BME) for each financial year from 2007/08 to 2013/14.

Table 2 shows the proportion of the total MPS workforce that was female or BME at the end of each financial year from 2007/08 to 2013/14.

Police officers recruited by the Metropolitan Police Service, 2007/08 to 2013/141,2,3
Metropolitan Police
Percentages
Total number of recruits (FTE) FemaleBlack and minority ethnic
2007/081,736 2913
2008/092,631 3113
2009/101,980 3015
2010/11432 2716
2011/121,498 2716
2012/13187 2420
2013/142,343 3016
Source: Home Office
Notes
1. Includes transfers from other England and Wales forces but does not include staff returning after a period of secondment.
2. This table contains full-time equivalent (FTE) figures that have been presented to the nearest whole number.
3. Breakdowns by ethnicity are not regularly published; they have not been verified by police forces and should be treated as provisional. Total police officer joiner figures, by police force area, rank and gender are published each year in the 'Police Workforce, England and Wales' (previously titled 'Police Service Strength, England and Wales') statistical publications which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.
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