Home Department written question – answered at on 13 May 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fully qualified police officers were employed by the Metropolitan police on (a) 1 May 1997 and (b) 1 January.
Information on police numbers is collected quarterly. The Metropolitan Police Service had 26,677 police officers on
Additionally the Metropolitan police had 12,093 police staff and 1,431 Community Support Officers at the end of December 2003.
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