Lee Scott
Conservative, Ilford North
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many community support officers were in post in each police authority in England and Wales in the last three years for which figures are available.
Vernon Coaker
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The available data are given in the table.
| Police community support officer strength( 1) (FTE)( 2) by police force as at 30 September 2004 to 30 September 2006 | |||
| Police force | 30 September 2004 | 30 September 2005 | 30 September 2006 |
| Avon and Somerset | 82 | 146 | 182 |
| Bedfordshire | 26 | 43 | 47 |
| Cambridgeshire | 56 | 92 | 125 |
| Cheshire | 47 | 77 | 77 |
| Cleveland | 75 | 86 | 111 |
| Cumbria | 6 | 19 | 27 |
| Derbyshire | 0 | 43 | 56 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 57 | 75 | 158 |
| Dorset | 22 | 56 | 72 |
| Durham | 36 | 72 | 90 |
| Essex | 80 | 193 | 296 |
| Gloucestershire | 49 | 62 | 94 |
| Greater Manchester | 198 | 264 | 321 |
| Hampshire | 0 | 23 | 103 |
| Hertfordshire | 75 | 135 | 165 |
| Humberside | 0 | 20 | 112 |
| Kent | 58 | 103 | 100 |
| Lancashire | 115 | 159 | 224 |
| Leicestershire | 54 | 119 | 155 |
| Lincolnshire | 46 | 78 | 134 |
| London, City of | 0 | 14 | 8 |
| Merseyside | 90 | 161 | 214 |
| Metropolitan Police | 1,810 | 2,053 | 2,681 |
| Norfolk | 55 | 67 | 102 |
| Northamptonshire | 27 | 38 | 62 |
| Northumbria | 51 | 143 | 164 |
| North Yorkshire | 46 | 69 | 85 |
| Nottinghamshire | 69 | 112 | 155 |
| South Yorkshire | 57 | 125 | 126 |
| Staffordshire | 13 | 62 | 103 |
| Suffolk | 15 | 33 | 46 |
| Surrey | 77 | 102 | 161 |
| Sussex | 183 | 231 | 274 |
| Thames Valley | 7 | 109 | 134 |
| Warwickshire | 43 | 56 | 61 |
| West Mercia | 67 | 86 | 170 |
| West Midlands | 40 | 247 | 348 |
| West Yorkshire | 264 | 433 | 505 |
| Wiltshire | 28 | 38 | 85 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 4 | 24 | 30 |
| Gwent | 26 | 81 | 97 |
| North Wales | 5 | 61 | 76 |
| South Wales | 65 | 116 | 181 |
| Total England and Wales | 4,125 | 6,323 | 8,517 |
| (1) This table contains 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. (2) Full-time equivalent includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. | |||
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