Home Department written question – answered at on 31 January 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers there were in each police authority in each year since 2002.
Available data relates to police community support officer strength for each police area in England and Wales, each year from
The first police community support officers started work in September 2002, following legislation which was introduced as part of the Police Reform Act 2002. Therefore, data on police community support officers are not available prior to
Police community support officer strength( 1) (FTE)( 2) by police force as at 31 March 2003 to 2010 and at 30 September 2010( 3) | |||||||||
As at 31 March: | |||||||||
Police force | 2003 | 2004 | 2005( 4) | 2006( 4) | 2007( 4) | 2008( 4) | 2009( 4) | 2010( 4) | 30 September 2010( 4,5) |
Avon and Somerset | 0 | 45 | 139 | 130 | 302 | 377 | 381 | 430 | 424 |
Bedfordshire | 0 | 12 | 40 | 41 | 83 | 120 | 122 | 116 | 126 |
Cambridgeshire | 6 | 57 | 86 | 101 | 184 | 197 | 195 | 209 | 193 |
Cheshire | 2 | 50 | 52 | 75 | 176 | 231 | 234 | 237 | 223 |
Cleveland | 37 | 77 | 75 | 100 | 114 | 170 | 198 | 193 | 190 |
Cumbria | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 85 | 99 | 107 | 111 | 106 |
Derbyshire | 0 | 0 | 43 | 42 | 181 | 166 | 205 | 181 | 185 |
Devon and Cornwall | 19 | 51 | 74 | 74 | 317 | 354 | 362 | 363 | 348 |
Dorset | 6 | 8 | 47 | 61 | 122 | 151 | 156 | 164 | 152 |
Durham | 10 | 28 | 69 | 67 | 142 | 162 | 171 | 175 | 170 |
Essex | 10 | 86 | 179 | 192 | 388 | 436 | 446 | 445 | 419 |
Gloucestershire | 0 | 54 | 72 | 72 | 169 | 162 | 161 | 148 | 141 |
Greater Manchester | 160 | 173 | 269 | 251 | 763 | 773 | 782 | 842 | 829 |
Hampshire | 0 | 0 | 26 | 30 | 296 | 324 | 325 | 347 | 335 |
Hertfordshire | 14 | 46 | 98 | 139 | 223 | 246 | 256 | 262 | 257 |
Humberside | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 194 | 318 | 321 | 317 | 316 |
Kent | 0 | 59 | 105 | 97 | 203 | 377 | 390 | 387 | 379 |
Lancashire | 77 | 110 | 161 | 184 | 374 | 400 | 437 | 428 | 412 |
Leicestershire | 28 | 41 | 103 | 136 | 216 | 212 | 228 | 233 | 226 |
Lincolnshire | 29 | 38 | 75 | 78 | 147 | 165 | 153 | 149 | 137 |
London. City of | 0 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 36 | 46 | 48 | 52 | 48 |
Merseyside | 40 | 72 | 170 | 196 | 332 | 407 | 442 | 468 | 450 |
Metropolitan Police | 513 | 1,463 | 2,147 | 2,315 | 3.694 | 4.247 | 4.594 | 4,645 | 4,387 |
Norfolk | 12 | 33 | 68 | 65 | 176 | 274 | 277 | 275 | 277 |
Northamptonshire | 12 | 10 | 37 | 40 | 129 | 159 | 168 | 164 | 168 |
Northumbria | 0 | 51 | 126 | 129 | 248 | 254 | 259 | 438 | 429 |
North Yorkshire | 0 | 52 | 75 | 71 | 147 | 180 | 173 | 198 | 187 |
Nottinghamshire | 10 | 56 | 108 | 112 | 217 | 259 | 243 | 268 | 279 |
South Yorkshire | 14 | 59 | 124 | 121 | 302 | 334 | 328 | 328 | 314 |
Staffordshire | 0 | 7 | 63 | 70 | 203 | 209 | 236 | 237 | 230 |
Suffolk | 0 | 15 | 34 | 30 | 123 | 140 | 160 | 173 | 170 |
Surrey | 21 | 56 | 115 | 126 | 203 | 211 | 206 | 224 | 234 |
Sussex | 22 | 83 | 228 | 257 | 352 | 372 | 399 | 377 | 367 |
Thames Valley | 0 | 7 | 98 | 130 | 213 | 521 | 517 | 500 | 502 |
Warwickshire | 11 | 25 | 56 | 64 | 127 | 133 | 143 | 138 | 137 |
West Mercia | 8 | 57 | 81 | 85 | 217 | 272 | 272 | 279 | 281 |
West Midlands | 0 | 39 | 219 | 252 | 644 | 748 | 812 | 811 | 784 |
West Yorkshire | 70 | 265 | 394 | 462 | 690 | 757 | 761 | 763 | 728 |
Wiltshire | 15 | 23 | 41 | 57 | 121 | 147 | 135 | 126 | 141 |
Dyfed-Powys | 0 | 5 | 25 | 26 | 77 | 73 | 82 | 83 | 84 |
Gwent | 30 | 45 | 77 | 76 | 105 | 139 | 139 | 143 | 144 |
North Wales | 0 | 0 | 59 | 58 | 145 | 159 | 159 | 157 | 156 |
South Wales | 0 | 59 | 107 | 111 | 314 | 327 | 325 | 335 | 310 |
Total England and Wales | 1,176 | 3,418 | 6.214 | 6,769 | 13,497 | 15,805 | 16.507 | 16.918 | 16,376 |
(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. (3) Police community support officers were introduced in statute in 2002, therefore data are not available prior to 2002-03. (4) Strength figures as at 31 March 2005 onwards include those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Therefore these figures are not comparable with those provided for other years in the table. (5) These figures should be treated as provisional and subject to possible revision in future police service strength publications. Finalised figures will appear in the annual bulletin, together with further detail and explanation. |
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