Asylum: Staffordshire
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Brian Jenkins (Tamworth, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department
(1) how many police officers are planned to be deployed in each basic command unit in the Staffordshire police force area in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012;
(2) how many police officers were deployed in each basic command unit of the Staffordshire police force area in (a) 1997, (b) 2001, (c) 2005 and (d) 2009 on the latest date for which figures are available.
David Hanson (Minister of State (Crime and Policing), Home Office; Delyn, Labour)
Information on planned deployment is not collected centrally. Decisions about the number of officers, PCSOs and police staff in each basic command unit and other specialist units is an operational matter for the chief constable.
The available data for the number of police officers deployed are provided in the following table. This information has been collected since April 2002.
| Police officer strength in Staffordshire police force area by basic command unit, as at 31 March( 1, 2, 3) | |||||
| Police force | BCU | 2009 | 2005 | 2001 | 1997 |
| Staffordshire | Chase | 410 | 416 | n/a | n/a |
| North Staffordshire | 292 | 299 | n/a | n/a | |
| Stoke on Trent | 547 | 585 | n/a | n/a | |
| Trent Valley | 405 | 429 | n/a | n/a | |
| Central Services | 557 | 580 | n/a | n/a | |
| Total | 2,211 | 2,309 | 2,129 | 2,211 | |
| (1) These figures are based on full-time equivalents that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, due to rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. (2) Data on police strength by police basic command unit were collected centrally for the first time for the period beginning April 2002. Therefore no breakdowns by BCU are available prior to that. (3) Figures prior to 2003 are not directly comparable with figures from 2003 onwards, since figures prior to 2003 exclude staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave, whereas figures from 2003 onwards include them. | |||||