Which Four Police Forces Have No Black Officers?

[super jumbe]

New statistics from the Home Office have revealed that four police forces in Britain have no black officers at all.

The forces in question are Cheshire, Durham, North Yorkshire and Dyfed-Powys, which also had the lowest total number of ethnic minority officers at just eight.

That amounts to 0.7% of its full-time workforce of 1,175 identifying as not white, as of March 31 this year.

Cheshire had the lowest proportion of ethnic minority officers in terms of proportion of workforce at just 0.6% - or 12 out of 1,962.

North Yorkshire employed no women officers from any ethnic minority.

More than half of all forces across England in Wales have also recorded a decline in the total numbers of ethnic minority officers over the same time in 2014.

The Home Office statistics break down ethnicity into six groups: white, mixed, black or black British, Asian or Asian British, Chinese or other ethnic group and not stated.

Of all the minority officers in the 43 forces, 40% indicated they were Asian or Asian British, 29% were mixed, 19.7% were black or black British and 11.2% were Chinese or other.

Out of the 43 forces in England and Wales, the Metropolitan Police had the largest proportion of ethnic minority officers with 11.7%.
They include 646 black or black British officers out of a workforce of 31,877 full time equivalent officers.

West Midlands (8.6%) and Leicestershire (7.2%) came in second and third place respectively.

The 10 forces with the lowest overall number of ethnic minority officers, according to the statistics:
Dyfed-Powys (8)
Cheshire (12)
Cumbria (13)
North Wales (13)
North Yorkshire (15)
Dorset (17)
Humberside (17)
Lincolnshire (18)
Durham (20)
Gwent (21)

[rds60h]

The big problem of all this so called sexual equality and racial equality is that it can mean that it can discriminate against those who are most suited or the best for the job.
It does not take into account the mix of people that apply for the positions, nor does it take into account of the racial make up of the area concerned.
I can remember applying for the Police Force many years ago and being rejected; when I asked a Police Detective I knew if he could find out where I had gone wrong so that I could improve in that area and apply again later, he discovered that they were preferencing "Ethnic Minorities" and that almost all White British applicants were being automatically rejected irrespective of how well they had done.
Now, had that occurred the other way round it would have definitely been recorded as racist, but because certain organisations are expected to adhere to "social mixes" the rejection of higher achieving or better suited White applicants is seen as acceptable.

[GastonJ]

when I asked a Police Detective I knew if he could find out where I had gone wrong so that I could improve in that area and apply again later, he discovered that they were preferencing "Ethnic Minorities"

Did you not go out and purposefully catch jaundice and learn to speak mandarin so that you could reapply then?

[super jumbe]

Suppose we had 85% black officers and 15% white officers the tabloid will not come up with this piss

[McrRed]

Everyone knows there's no ethnic minorities in Cheshire.

Dyfed Powys? They're all ethnic minority there aren't they? They're Welsh fer chrissakes!

ps only joking, never heard of Dyfed Powys, never want to go there...