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<p>The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the ethnicity of the police
workforce in each Police Force Area. Data are not collected at lower levels of geography,
such as London Boroughs. These data are not broken down by age.</p><p>The latest available
data are published in the “Police Workforce, England and Wales, 31 March 2016” statistical
bulletin:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016"
target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016</a></p><p>
</p><p>The data shows that 12.6% of police officers in the Metropolitan Police Service
were from Black and Minority ethnic backgrounds, as at 31 March 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The
data can also be found on the police.uk website:</p><p><a href="http://www.police.uk/metropolitan/E05000614/performance/diversity/"
target="_blank">www.police.uk/metropolitan/E05000614/performance/diversity/</a></p>
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