Home Office written question – answered at on 27 April 2026.
Chris Philp
Shadow Home Secretary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there were in post as (a) full-time equivalents and (b) headcount as at 31 December 2025.
Sarah Jones
The Minister of State, Home Department
The Home Office publishes Accredited Official Statistics on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis. Data is published in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin as a snapshotat 31 March and 30 September, available here:https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales
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