Home Office written question – answered at on 25 March 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers served in the Blackpool Constabulary on (a) 1 March 2010 and (b) 1 March 2015; and how many such officers were categorised as front-line staff.
The Home Office does not collect police workforce statistics for Blackpool Constabulary.
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the police workforce at police force area level but not more locally.
The table provided contains statistics on the number of full-time equivalent police officers employed by Lancashire Constabulary as at 31 March 2010 and the
31 March 2014. The table also contains the number and proportion of police officers in operational frontline roles. Data for 2015 have not yet been collected centrally and will not be published until later this year.
Between March 2010 and March 2014, the total number of full-time equivalent police officers employed by Lancashire constabulary has fallen by 575 police officers or 16%.
Over the same period, police recorded crime (excluding fraud) has fallen by 10% in Lancashire police force area.
What matters is how officers are deployed, not how many of them there are. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary has made clear that there is no simple link between officer numbers and crime levels.
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