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<p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers
employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data
are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.</p><p>Data
on the number of police officers in England and Wales, as at 31 March each year and
going back to March 2007, can be found in the accompanying Open Data Table:</p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods</a></p><p>The
latest published figures, representing the picture as at 30 September 2018, can be
accessed in ‘Table 1’ of the accompanying data tables here:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2018</a></p>
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