Police: West Midlands

Home Office written question – answered at on 3 March 2020.

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Photo of Preet Kaur Gill Preet Kaur Gill Shadow Minister (International Development)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 22 January 2020, Police Funding 2020-21, HCWS51, how many additional officers will be funded in the West Midlands from £51 million.

Photo of Kit Malthouse Kit Malthouse Minister of State (Ministry of Justice and Home Office)

The Government is delivering on the people’s priorities by recruiting 20,000 additional police officers over the next three years.

West Midlands police have been allocated 366 officers in year one of the uplift, to be recruited by the end of March 2021.

Decisions on the allocations of officers for years two and three are yet to be taken.

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