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<p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size and composition of the
police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce,
England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England
and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>The latest officer numbers were released
in the publication covering the situation as at 30 September 2020. Data covering the
situation as at 31 March 2020 and previous years are available in open data format
here: Police workforce open data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>Total officer
numbers are collected and published twice each year covering the situation as at 31
March and 30 September. Data covering officer rank, however, is collected only once
and covers the situation as at 31 March.</p><p>The number of police constables (full
time-equivalent, FTE) in the 43 territorial England and Wales forces as at 31 March
2020 is provided in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Constables,
England and Wales<br> </strong>As at 31 March 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Force</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Constables</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon
& Somerset</p></td><td><p>2,197</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>998</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>1,249</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>1,622</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>1,053</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>939</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>1,472</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon
& Cornwall</p></td><td><p>2,328</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>917</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>876</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dyfed-Powys</p></td><td><p>843</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>2,647</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>896</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater
Manchester</p></td><td><p>5,329</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>1,031</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>2,058</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>1,628</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>1,549</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>2,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>2,320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>1,521</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>774</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London,
City of</p></td><td><p>547</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>2,851</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Metropolitan
Police</p></td><td><p>26,077</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>1,275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North
Wales</p></td><td><p>1,143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>1,117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>962</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>2,481</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>1,635</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South
Wales</p></td><td><p>2,262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>1,898</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>1,291</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>956</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>1,441</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>2,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames
Valley</p></td><td><p>3,337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>801</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West
Mercia</p></td><td><p>1,717</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>5,120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West
Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>4,363</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>758</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>
101,415 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While the ‘Police workforce, England
and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police
workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office also publishes
a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount) in England and Wales. Data
are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics</p>
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