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{{Short description|Police codes for ethnicity used in the UK}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Law enforcement in the United Kingdom}}
'''IC codes''' ('''identity code''') or '''6+1 codes''' are [[police code]]s used in the [[Law enforcement in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] to visually describe the apparent [[ethnicity]] of a person.<ref name="justice">{{cite web |title=Justice Matters: Disproportionality |url=https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/mopac_justice_matters_13_march_2018_disproportionality_slides.pdf |publisher=Mayor of London – Office for Policing and Crime |accessdate=8 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="moj_2024">{{Cite web |date=2024-01-25 |title=A Technical Guide to Ethnicity and the Criminal Justice System, 2022 |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65b1491bf2718c000dfb1cb2/A_Technical_Guide_to_Ethnicity_and_the_CJS_2022.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250117204418/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65b1491bf2718c000dfb1cb2/A_Technical_Guide_to_Ethnicity_and_the_CJS_2022.pdf |archive-date=2025-01-17 |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=GOV.UK}}</ref> They originated in the late 1970s.<ref name=guardian-1978>{{cite web|last=Mackie|first=Lindsay|title=Race causes an initial confusion|url=http://century.guardian.co.uk/1970-1979/Story/0,6051,106880,00.html|work=[[The Guardian]]|accessdate=26 August 2013|date=14 June 1978}}</ref><ref name="mpabriefing">{{cite web|last=Bowsher|first=Kevin|title=The code systems used within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to formally record ethnicity|url=http://policeauthority.org/metropolitan/publications/briefings/2007/0703/index.html|work=MPA briefing paper|publisher=Metropolitan Police Authority| date=2 March 2007 |accessdate=9 October 2014}}</ref>

IC codes refer to a police officer's visual assessment of the ethnicity of a person, and are used in the quick transmission of basic visual information, such as over radio.<ref name="mpabriefing" /> They differ from [[Self defined ethnicity|self-defined ethnicity]] (SDE, or "18+1") codes, which refer to how a person describes their own ethnicity.<ref name="mpabriefing"/> When recording a person's details (such as in the case of a [[Powers_of_the_police_in_England_and_Wales#Search_without_arrest|stop and search]] or arrest), police are required to ask for and use SDE categories where possible, even if the category chosen does not match the officer's own assessment.<ref name="mpabriefing" />

IC codes have been used to record individuals' ethnicities in the [[Police National Computer]].<ref name="mpabriefing" /><ref name="monitoring-beginning">{{cite web |first1=Marian |last1=FitzGerald |first2=Rae |last2=Sibbitt |title=Ethnic monitoring in police forces: A beginning |work=Home Office Research Study 173 |location=London |publisher=Home Office |year=1997 |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20050301220034/http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/hors173.pdf}}</ref> They have also been used in the reports on ethnicity in the criminal justice system published annually as required by the [[Criminal Justice Act 1991]],<ref name="criminal justice s95">{{Cite legislation UK
| type = act
| act = Criminal Justice Act 1991
| year = 1991
| chapter = 53
| section = 95
| access-date = 2025-01-17
| quote = The Secretary of State shall in each year publish such information as he considers expedient for the purpose of [...] facilitating the performance by such persons of their duty to avoid discriminating against any persons on the ground of race or sex or any other improper ground.
}}</ref><ref name="moj_2024"/> and in some scientific research.<ref name="Wfertfcsp">{{cite journal|title=Worldwide Fst Estimates Relative to Five Continental-Scale Populations|journal=Annals of Human Genetics|date=November 2014|volume=78|issue=6|pages=468–477|doi=10.1111/ahg.12081|pmid=26460400|pmc=4223938|last1=Steele|first1=Christopher D.|last2=Court|first2=Denise Syndercombe|last3=Balding|first3=David J.}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=January 2025}}

{| class="wikitable" style="border: 1px solid darkgray;"
! Code || Ethnicity<ref name="mpabriefing" /><ref name="mps-facialrec">{{cite web|title=Metropolitan Police Service Live Facial Recognition Trials|url=https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/central/services/accessing-information/facial-recognition/met-evaluation-report.pdf|work=NPL/MPS Research Report|publisher=National Physical Laboratory, Metropolitan Police Service|date=February 2020|accessdate=26 June 2024}}</ref>
|-
| IC1 || [[White people|White]]{{snd}}[[North European]]
|-
| IC2 || [[White people|White]]{{snd}}[[South Europe]]an
|-
| IC3 || [[Black people|Black]]
|-
| IC4 || [[British Asian|Asian]]{{snd}}[[Indian subcontinent]]
|-
| IC5 || [[Chinese people|Chinese]], [[Japanese people|Japanese]], [[Koreans|Korean]], or other [[Southeast Asians|Southeast Asian]]
|-
| IC6 || [[Arabs|Arab]] or [[North Africa]]n
|-
| IC9 || Unknown
|}

==See also==
*[[Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Encodings]]
[[Category:Law enforcement in the United Kingdom]]

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