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IC (Identity Codes) Numbers are codes used by the British police to describe a person's apparent ethnicity.
The codes are:
- IC1 – White European
- IC2 – Dark European (Mediterranean / Hispanic)
- IC3 – Afro-Caribbean
- IC4 – Asian (South Asian)
- IC5 – East/Southeast Asian
- IC6 – Arab/North African
- IC7 or 0 – Unknown (sometimes snarkily referred to as 'Tantastic', for those who've over done the orange fake tan)
Used in many a Police Procedural, especially The Bill.
Although it's not used universally; the London Metropolitan Police came up with the idea and were the only ones to really make official use of it until a national system was brought in in 2000. Appearances in fiction outside of the M25 are usually a result of poor research.
