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.
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) | Female | Black and minority ethnic | ||
2007/08 | 1,736 | 29 | 13 | |
2008/09 | 2,631 | 31 | 13 | |
2009/10 | 1,980 | 30 | 15 | |
2010/11 | 432 | 27 | 16 | |
2011/12 | 1,498 | 27 | 16 | |
2012/13 | 187 | 24 | 20 | |
2013/14 | 2,343 | 30 | 16 | |
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. | ||||