... around nineteen thousand non-operational employees to carry out its functions and of these 2.6% of operational and 5.1% of non-operational staff are from ethnic minority backgrounds.1 Ethnic minorities accounted for 7.2% of the working population in 2000. Ethnic minority and mixed origin groups will account for half the growth in the working age population over the next ten years. Unemployment is considerably higher among ethnic minority communities. In 1998, 5.8% of white people of working age were unemployed on average, but among people from ethnic minorities it was more than double that at 13%. It was 20% for Pakistani people and 23% for Bangladeshi people.2 As members of the public 35% of black people believe they will receive worse treatment than others from the police. About a third believe immigration services will treat them worse, and 28% identified prisons and courts as places where they could expect poorer treatment than others. ...

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