Information about African and Caribbean heritage officers

 

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This is from the Mayor's Dashboard update on improving MPS trust and transparency. 

 

Point 3.1 A significant programme of attraction and recruitment activity continues, and this includes the progression of the ‘Outreach’ programme, which includes additional resource investment to mobilise bespoke and targeted recruitment in communities who are less well represented in the MPS. In addition, the ‘Everyone is a recruiter’ awareness package is being developed to encourage recruitment activity across all business groups.

 

MOPAC has made £1.2m available over 3 years for a specific Career Development Service proposal for the progression and promotion of Black officers and the selection of Career Development

 

Officers at the Chief Inspector level. The Mayor has provided £0.9m (£300,000 per annum for three years, 2021/22 to 2023/24) for the development of the Community Outreach Programme fund and Attraction Analytics dashboard to further enable this work.

 

Request: 

1. Please send/signpost me to any MPS monitoring report that shows how this money was spent and 

2. How many African and Caribbean heritage officers were promoted in 2021/22. 

3. In the recent recruitment uplift funded by the Home Office, please send me the number of African and Caribbean heritage officers recruited in each financial year. 

4. Please send me a copy of the Attraction Analytics dashboard.

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full. 

 

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

 

 

We cannot locate any MPS monitoring report for this question so this information is not held. 

For the purposes of this response the data team have used the following ethnic origin codes for African and Caribbean heritage officers; Black – African, Black – British, Black – Caribbean, Black - Any other Black / African / Caribbean background, Mixed - White and Black African and Mixed - White and Black Caribbean.

	Sergeant		Inspector		Chief Inspector		Total Promotions
	2021	2022	2021	2022	2021	2022	2021	2022
Total Promotions	733	725	319	367	162	182	1214	1274
African & Caribbean heritage	41	34	7	21	7	5	55	60
% African & Caribbean heritage	5.6%	4.7%	2.2%	5.7%	4.3%	2.7%	4.5%	4.7%

 

Please note ethnicity is a self-declared field and we can only provide data where individuals have chosen to self-declare.

 

 

Please see data below from the recruitment team:

Financial Year: 2021/2022
Ethnic Origin	Police Constable	Detective Constable	Totals
Black - African	45	10	55
Black - Caribbean	18	7	25
Mixed - White & Black African	14	6	20
Mixed - White & Black Caribbean	26	12	38
Totals	103	35	138

Financial Year: 2022/2023
Ethnic Origin	Police Constable	Detective Constable	Totals
Black - African	60	10	70
Black - Caribbean	27	5	32
Mixed - White & Black African	11	7	18
Mixed - White & Black Caribbean	31	16	47
Totals	129	38	167

   

Financial Year: 2023/2024
Ethnic Origin	Police Constable	Detective Constable	Totals
Black - African	30	9	39
Black - Caribbean	13	9	22
Mixed - White & Black African	3	2	5
Mixed - White & Black Caribbean	11	5	16
Totals	57	25	82

   

Please note ethnicity is a self-declared field and we can only provide data where individuals have chosen to self-declare.

 

 

Please see below DC and PC application stats.