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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 police community support
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>The
number of police community support officers (full time-equivalent, FTE) in the 43
territorial England and Wales forces as at 30 September 2020 is provided in the table
below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Police Community Support Officers
(PCSO), England and Wales</strong><strong><br> </strong>As at 30 September, 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Force</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FTE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon
& Somerset</p></td><td><p>315</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>187</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon
& Cornwall</p></td><td><p>188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>124</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dyfed-Powys</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>105</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater
Manchester</p></td><td><p>552</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>131</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>195</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>326</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>267</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London,
City of</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Metropolitan
Police</p></td><td><p>1,260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>-00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North
Wales</p></td><td><p>175</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>178</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South
Wales</p></td><td><p>352</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>138</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>219</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>156</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames
Valley</p></td><td><p>283</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West
Mercia</p></td><td><p>217</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>467</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West
Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>576</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>
9,115 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><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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