Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 2 July 2001.
John Denham
Minister (Home Office) (Police and Crime Reduction)
2:30,
2 July 2001
Recruitment by Hampshire police has increased in each of the past two years. The force took on 192 new officers in 2000–01, compared with 152 in 1999–2000, and 117 in 1998–99. Hampshire has been allocated 243 recruits from the crime fighting fund over the three years to March 2003. The force recruited 19 CFF officers in 2000–01. The force's latest forecast is that it will take on 121 officers through the CFF in the current year.
