This kind of race-related stumbling over a person's identity so often leads to smug, liberaller-than-thou attacks on this forum and it could all be avoided if only we'd paid more attention to The Bill before it was euthanised. In future chuggers, muggers, rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, - (sorry, slipped into Blazing Saddles mode) - could all be described by their IC number....... The IC codes are: IC1 ? White European IC2 ? Dark European IC3 ? Afro-Caribbean IC4 ? Asian (in the British sense - ie Indian or Pakistani) IC5 ? Oriental IC6 ? Arab/North African IC0 ? Unknown ethnicity Some forces use IC7 as unknown ethnicity. "IC" itself stands for "Identity Code