Police: Cheshire
Home Department
Helen Jones (Warrington North, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers were recruited in Cheshire in each year since 1997.
Tony McNulty (Minister of State, Home Office; Harrow East, Labour)
The available data, for 2002-03 onwards, is in the following tables.
| Police officer recruits(1) to Cheshire police from 2002-03 to 2005-06(2) (FTE)(3) | |
| Cheshire | |
| 2002-03 | 141 |
| 2003-04 | 153 |
| 2004-05 | 105 |
| 2005-06 | 121 |
| (1) Recruits included those officers joining as standard direct recruits and those who were previously special constables. This excludes police officers on transfers from other forces and those rejoining. (2) Financial year runs 1 April to 31 March inclusive. Data are not available prior to 2002-03. (3) 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. | |
| Police community support officer recruits(1) to Cheshire police from 2002-03 to 2005-06(2) (FTE)(3) | |
| Cheshire | |
| 2002-03 | 2 |
| 2003-04 | 26 |
| 2004-05 | 12 |
| 2005-06 | 14 |
| (1) Recruits included those officers joining as standard direct recruits and those who were previously special constables. This excludes police community support officers on transfers from other forces and those rejoining. (2) Financial year runs 1 April to 31 March inclusive. Data are not available prior to 2002-03. (3) 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. | |