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Home Office

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Mr. Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will indicate, for each constabulary in Britain, the number of (a) police officers and (b) constables per 1,000 of population. [154718] Mr. Charles Clarke: The information for England and Wales is given in the table. The Scottish Executive have responsibility for the police service in Scotland. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Force Police strength (all Police strength Police officers per Police constables per ranks) as at 30 (constables) as at 30 1,000 of population 1,000 of population September 2000 September 2000 Avon and Somerset 2,941 2,293.9 1.96 1.53 Bedfordshire 1,006 783.3 1.79 1.39 Cambridgeshire 1,266 989.2 1.75 1.36 Cheshire 2,000 1,521.5 2.04 1.55 City of London 720 557.3 {1} {1} Cleveland 1,421 1,129.1 2.56 2.03 Cumbria 1,048 816.6 2.13 1.66 Derbyshire 1,780 1,363.0 1.83 1.4 Devon and Cornwall 2,873 2,261.3 1.83 1.44 Dorset 1,299 999.5 1.88 1.44 Durham 1,581 1,243.7 2.61 2.05 Dyfed-Powys 1,045 779.0 2.17 1.62 Essex 2,780 2,147.4 1.72 1.33 Gloucestershire 1,142 887.3 2.03 1.58 Greater Manchester 6,767 5,284.8 2.63 2.05 Gwent 1,271 980.6 2.28 1.76 Hampshire 3,435 2,663.2 1.93 1.49 Hertfordshire 1,961 1,530.0 1.88 1.47 Humberside 1,905 1,486.1 2.16 1.69 Kent 3,239 2,544.0 2.04 1.60 Lancashire 3,215 2,463.3 2.25 1.73 Leicestershire 2,010 1,613.8 2.15 1.73 Lincolnshire 1,162 888.3 1.85 1.41 Merseyside 4,081 3203.4 2.91 2.28 Metropolitan Police 24,695 18,981.0 3.49 2.68 Norfolk 1,387 1,062.3 1.74 1.33 Northamptonshire 1,166 925.0 1.88 1.49 Northumbria 3,885 3,037.2 2.74 2.14 North Wales 1,393 1,066.0 2.12 1.62 North Yorkshire 1,293 990.7 1.73 1.32 Nottinghamshire 2,232 1,762.4 2.16 1.71 South Wales 3,029 2,343.0 2.44 1.89 South Yorkshire 3,184 2,420.3 2.44 1.86 Staffordshire 2,157 1,672.3 2.03 1.58 Suffolk 1,115 859.6 1.65 1.27 Surrey 2,113 1,673.0 1.96 1.55 Sussex 2,812 2,118.5 1.86 1.40 Thames Valley 3,748 2,905.5 1.77 1.37 Warwickshire 912 728.1 1.79 1.43 West Mercia 1,906 1,470.7 1.67 1.29 West Midlands 7,350 5,931.4 2.80 2.26 West Yorkshire 4,806 3,792.6 2.27 1.79 Wiltshire 1,099 828.6 1.80 1.36 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Figures for City of London and Metropolitan police are combined. Note: The figures provided in the table are the police numbers for the 43 forces in England and Wales and do not include secondments. Further information on police numbers at 30 September 2000 can be found in Home Office Statistical Bulletin No 2/01 "Police Service Strength (England and Wales)" which was published on 16 January. A copy is available in the Library.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

365 c142-4W;365 c142-3W; 154718

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Police Population

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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