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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.</p><p>The
latest available data, which cover the situation as at 30 September 2017, are published
in the ‘Police workforce’ statistical bulletin, available here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-september-2017"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-september-2017</a></p><p>Data
for previous years, and as at 31 March, can be found in Table H3 of the annual bulletin,
available here:<br><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>
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