asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police are engaged in each Metropolitan police district expressed in terms of police per numbers of recorded crimes per annum and excluding police engaged on diplomatic, traffic and similar duties.
I understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that the latest available information is for 1983 and is given in the following table. The number of officers assigned to districts who were deployed on traffic duties could be excluded from the calculations only at disproportionate cost.
| Number of police officers assigned* per 1,000 notifiable offences recorded by district, 1983 | ||
| Metropolitan Police District | ||
| District | Police officers assigned*as at 31 December 1983 per 1,000 offences recorded in 1983 | |
| A | (part) Westminster | 96 |
| B | Kensington and Chelsea | 37 |
| C | (part) Westminster | 38 |
| D | (part) Westminster | 34 |
| E | Camden | 29 |
| F | Hammersmith | 40 |
| G | Hackney | 28 |
| H | Tower Hamlets | 34 |
| I | Heathrow, etc. | 69 |
| J | Waltham Forest, Redbridge, etc. | 34 |
| K | Havering, Barking and Newham | 29 |
| L | Lambeth | 27 |
| M | Southwark | 29 |
| N | Islington | 33 |
| P | Lewisham and Bromley | 26 |
| Q | Brent and Harrow | 33 |
| R | Greenwich and Bexley | 24 |
| S | Barnet and Hertsmere | 40 |
| T | Richmond upon Thames and Hounslow | 38 |
| V | Kingston upon Thames, Merton, etc. | 31 |
| W | Wandsworth | 30 |
District
| Police officers assigned * as at 31 December 1983 per 1,000 offences recorded in 1983
| |
| X | Ealing and Hillingdon | 31 |
| Y | Haringey and Enfield | 30 |
| Z | Croydon, Sutton, etc. | 27 |
* Officers assigned to the royalty and diplomatic protection department and the central traffic department have been excluded from the calculations; those assigned to a district but allocated to traffic duties are included. | ||