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<p>The Home Office collects and publishes information on the ethnicity of police officers
on an annual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin,
which is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a>.</p><p>The
latest data show that, as at 31 March 2019, there were 8,329 BAME police officers
in the 43 forces in England and Wales, representing 6.9% of all officers who stated
their ethnicity.</p><p>Police professional training standards are set and maintained
by the College of Policing which the Government established as the first professional
body for the police in 2012.</p>
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