Tom Barton

Freedom of Information Section

Nottinghamshire Police

Telephone:- 0115 9672507

Facsimile:- 0115 9672896

E-mail: [email address]

[FOI #2885 email]

9^th September 2008

Dear Mr Barton,

Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Reference No: FOI08-1722

Your request is

Police forces make a record of the ethnicity of all people

arrested. I would like to know the numbers of people of each

different ethnicity arrested from 2003 up to the present, or as

recent as is practicable.

By the way of clarification I would also be grateful for the

following pieces of information-

1. The CATEGORIES Nottinghamshire Police use to record ethnicity.

2. Any records Nottinghamshire Police has taken of the NATIONALITY

of people arrested in the same period, 2003 up to the present.

So the form I envisage the data being presented in is a table. On

one axis are the dates, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. On the

other axis are your categories of ethnicity, eg Caucasian, Afro

Carribean, Asian, Hispanic....

(These example categories do not reflect any prejudice or

preference, they are merely indicative. Please use whatever your

categories are)

The numbers in the table will refer to the number of arrests in

each catergory.

Under S 1 (3) (a) of the FOIA, I require clarification of your request.

Under S 1 (3) of the FOIA -

“Where a public authority -

Please specify whether you refer to Ethnicity only, to Nationality only, or to both categorisations? Please note that we hold Ethnicity as both Visible Ethnicity and Self-Defined Ethnicity.

Nottinghamshire Police is not required to comply with your request until further information has been supplied. Therefore the 20 working days has stopped until sufficient information has been received.

Yours sincerely

Coryn Reynolds

Freedom of Information Officer