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<p>The Home Office does not collect data on the number of Neighbourhood Policing teams
that are operational. The Home Office does collect data annually on the function of
police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), including the number
of full time equivalent police officers and PCSOs primarily employed in Neighbourhood
Policing teams and/or Safer Neighbourhood teams. This information can be found in
the data tables published alongside the annual ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’
statistical bulletin, which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></p><p>Latest
data as at 31 March 2017 can be found in the Tables F1, F3 F4 and F6 of the police
workforce statistics published in July 2017: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629865/police-workforce-tabs-jul17.ods"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629865/police-workforce-tabs-jul17.ods</a></p><p>Officers
and PCSOs with multiple responsibilities or designations are recorded under their
primary function. The data do not therefore provide a complete picture of all officers
assigned to neighbourhood policing functions.</p><p>Some forces are not able to make
a clear distinction between ‘Neighbourhood Policing’ roles and ‘Incident (Response)
Management’ roles, therefore those forces record the majority of, or all, employees
under just one function. A more reliable measure is the number of officers employed
in ‘Local policing’ roles, which includes both neighbourhood and response functions.</p><p>Any
comparisons at force level should be made with care due to collaboration arrangements
between forces for particular functions. Additionally, police functions data are often
affected by re-structuring within police forces. Therefore comparisons over time for
specific functions should be made with care.</p><p>Decisions on the size and composition
of the police workforce are operational matters for Chief Officers working with their
Police and Crime Commissioners and taking into account local priorities.</p>
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