The Howard League for Penal Reform has collected data from police forces across England and Wales and found that BAME children accounted for 60 per cent of all child arrests by the Metropolitan Police in 2016, compared with 26 per cent of all child arrests across England and Wales.
The areas with the next highest proportion during the same year are Bedfordshire, where the figure is 42 per cent, and the West Midlands, where the figure is 41 per cent.
Meanwhile, the police forces with the lowest proportions are Cumbria and Durham (both two per cent), Cleveland and Norfolk (both three per cent) and Northumbria (four per cent).
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