Five British police forces have just one black officer among their ranks
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mirror.co.ukFive of the nation’s police forces have only one black officer among their ranks, shocking figures reveal. Forces in Durham, North Yorkshire, Warwickshire, Dyfed-Powys and North Wales had only one black officer each as of March last year.
Some 26 of the 43 forces in England and Wales had fewer than 10 black officers, according to Home Office data. These 26 police forces had just 111 officers who recorded their ethnicity as black or black British, among 46,162 in total.
This excludes other ethnicities, recorded as Asian or Asian British, mixed, Chinese or “other ethnic group”. The figures show that forces failed to have enough black, Asian or minority ethnicity officers in 2019 to ensure that their workforces were representative of the
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