1,433 people in England and Wales have died either in police custody or following other police contact since 1990, according to data compiled by Inquest, a charity specialising in the investigation of contentious deaths.

950 deaths took place in custody, 317 following a police pursuit, 112 were the result of a road traffic incident involving a police vehicle and 54 were police shootings.

The highest total was recorded in 2003, when 104 such deaths were recorded. Fourteen of these fell within the operational jurisdiction of the Metropolitan police, of which one was a shooting.

In 2011 there were 23 deaths in police custody, seven following police pursuit, one involving a police vehicle and two from shooting - including Mark Duggan.

Since 2003 the number of deaths has seen a general decline, although 2008's total of 65 was up 20% on the previous year's figure.

2005 saw the highest number of fatalities from police shootings - 6 - including Brazilian national Jean Charles de Menezes. No individual officers were charged in relation to de Menezes' death.

The Met accounts for more than one in five deaths related to police contact in England Wales since 1990. This statistic peaked in 1993 when 19 of the year's 41 deaths were recorded as relating to the force.

The chart below shows police-related deaths broken down by the ethnicity of the deceased. The two groups are white/unknown (including White: British, White: Irish and White: Other and cases where ethnicity is unknown) and Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) - all other recorded ethnicities.

The statistic for BAME deaths as a proportion of the total peaked in 2011, reaching 27.27% of all fatalities. The lowest figure was in 1990 when just one of the 62 people who died following police contact was BAME.

The percentage of BAME deaths as a share of all fatalities was disproportionately high compared to the group's representation in the population of England and Wales for eight of the nine years for which population ethnicity data is available.

In 2002 the percentage of police-related deaths involving BAME individuals was almost twice the corresponding figure for representation in the population.

BAME deaths accounted for 17% of police-related fatalities in 2009, but these ethnic groups made up just 12% of the population of England and Wales.

Data summary

Deaths following contact with police, England and Wales Click headings to sort Year Custody Pursuit Road traffic incident Shooting Total 1990 59 0 1 2 62 1991 60 1 1 3 65 1992 48 0 2 3 53 1993 36 2 0 3 41 1994 52 1 0 1 54 1995 48 2 1 2 53 1996 57 9 5 2 73 1997 58 17 8 0 83 1998 65 10 6 2 83 1999 47 8 5 3 63 2000 36 24 3 2 65 2001 34 26 9 4 73 2002 47 34 5 2 88 2003 62 29 11 2 104 2004 56 30 9 2 97 2005 42 36 9 6 93 2006 33 23 9 1 66 2007 29 14 6 5 54 2008 25 28 9 3 65 2009 15 8 5 2 30 2010 15 6 5 1 27 2011 23 7 1 2 33 2012 3 2 2 1 8

• DATA: police-related deaths by type

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