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01 March 1996

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Since April 1993 all police forces are required to publish annual figures on the ethnic origin of all those stop and searched. The first year's figures, for 1993/94, show: 331,383 stop and searches of white people 110,522 stop and searches of "ethnic" people (covering 42 police forces in England and Wales) The police forces where the number of people of "ethnic origin" stopped and searched was over 10% of the number of white people are: White people "Ethnic origin" Met(London) 132,565 95,751 Gr Manchester 38,376 4,134 West Midlands 4,098 1,927 Leicestershire 10,378 1,414 Thames Valley 3,817 615 West Yorkshire 2,636 386 Bedfordshire 1,381 324 The number of people of "ethnic origin" stopped and searched in London constitutes 42%; 86.6% of the total of those of "ethnic origin" in England and Wales and 21.6% of the overall total number of 441,905 stops and searches in 1993/94. Moreover, it should be noted that these figures only refer to stops and searches which are recorded and does not include those who are stopped and questioned but not searched.

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