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<p>The Home Office collects and publishes data biannually on the total number of police
officers employed by each police force in England and Wales. These data can be found
in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.</p><p>Detailed
data on the number of officers by rank is collected and published on an annual basis
only. The statistics for each of the four geographic forces in Wales, representing
the picture as at 31 March 2016, can be found in Table_H4 accompanying the main release
here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2016</a></p><p>Data
for previous years can be found in the Open Data tables, available here:</p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539270/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539270/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods</a></p><p>The
next release of ‘Police workforce’ statistics is due to be published on 20<sup>th</sup>
July, and will represent the picture as at 31 March 2017.</p>
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