Police

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will produce a table showing the average age of police constables by police authority area.

[holding answer 7 December 1989]: The information requested is set out in the table.

Police Authority Area	Average age, Constable rank as at 31 December 1988¹
Avon and Somerset	33
Bedfordshire	32
Cambridgeshire	33
Cheshire	33
Cleveland	33
Cumbria	32
Derbyshire	33
Devon and Cornwall	34
Dorset	34
Durham	32
Dyfed Powys	33
Essex	33
Gloucestershire	34
Greater Manchester	32
Gwent	32
Hampshire
Hertfordshire	32
Humberside	33
Kent	33
Lancashire	34
Leicestershire	32
Lincolnshire	34
London, City of	33
Merseyside	33
Metropolitan Police	31
Norfolk	35
Northamptonshire	32
Northumbria	34
North Wales	33
North Yorkshire	33
Nottinghamshire	31
South Wales	33
South Yorkshire	32
Staffordshire	32
Suffolk	33
Surrey	33
Sussex	34
Thames Valley	32
Warwickshire	35
West Mercia	33
West Midlands	32
West Yorkshire	32
Wiltshire	33
¹ This is the latest date for which analysis of age and rank is available. An analysis of England and Wales for all ranks can be found in Appendix 12 of HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary's Annual Report 1988, a copy of which can be found in the Library.

Volume 164: debated on Monday 18 December 1989