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Ethnic Breakdown - 1352/20

Date Responded 29 September 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

A breakdown by race and gender of your employees.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the people Services Department of Northumbria Police.  I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

Please see the below tables for breakdown of employees by gender and ethnicity. Data as of 1 September 2020 and reported as headcount.

Gender

Male

3045

Female

2344

Total

5389

 

Ethnicity

White British

4684

Not Stated

534

Any other White background

51

White and Asian

17

White Irish

17

Any other mixed background

16

Indian

12

Pakistani

12

Any other Asian background

9

Any other ethnic group

8

Bangladeshi

8

White and Black African

7

White and Black Caribbean

6

African

3

Chinese

2

Any other Black background

1

Arab

1

Caribbean

1

Total

5389

 

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

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