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date less than 2021-06-10more like thismore than 2021-06-10
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Home Office more like this
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answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Police: Employment remove filter
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pref label House of Lords more like this
question text To ask Her Majesty's Government how many police constables there were in each police force area in England and Wales in 2019. more like this
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Lord Hay of Ballyore more like this
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date of answer less than 2021-06-24more like thismore than 2021-06-24
answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><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) 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) 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. The number of police constables (full time-equivalent, FTE) in the 43 territorial England and Wales forces as at 31 March 2019 is provided in the table below: <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Constables, England and Wales<br> </strong>As at 31 March 2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Force</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Constables</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon &amp; Somerset</p></td><td><p>2,115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>917</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>1,155</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>1,549</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>941</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>885</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>1,399</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon &amp; Cornwall</p></td><td><p>2,228</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>924</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>859</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dyfed-Powys</p></td><td><p>841</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>2,425</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>793</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>4,960</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>1,036</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>2,080</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>1,565</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>1,495</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>2,811</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>2,257</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>1,404</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London, City of</p></td><td><p>535</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>2,621</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Metropolitan Police</p></td><td><p>24,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>1,237</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>1,104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>1,057</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>896</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>2,413</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>1,516</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>2,271</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>1,860</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>1,186</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>1,387</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>2,072</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>3,204</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>614</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p>1,497</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>5,101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>4,164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>754</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 96,084 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table>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></td></tr></tbody></table>
answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford more like this
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less than 2021-06-24T14:48:10.063Zmore like thismore than 2021-06-24T14:48:10.063Z
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label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford more like this
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label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore more like this