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Written question asked by Elfyn Llwyd (Plaid Cymru) on Tuesday, 29 April 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 6 May 2008. It was answered by Tony McNulty (Labour) on Thursday, 22 May 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.


Police: Manpower

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff were employed by North Wales police in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007, broken down by function.
Answer

[holding answer 6 May 2008]: The data requested are published annually in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin series ““Police Service Strength, England and Wales”” and are given in the following table.

Police Service strength (FTE)¹ for North Wales police as at 31 March 2006 and 2007
31 March 2006 31 March 2007
Police officers 1,634 1,608
Police staff 882 759
Police community support officers 58 145
Designated officers 0 37
Traffic wardens 2 1
¹ Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
476 c466-7W;476 c468W; 203530
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Staff North Wales Police
Link
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