Police Manpower

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications there have been in each police force in England and Wales for increased police manpower; and what are the numbers involved and the numbers agreed to, for the current year and each of the two previous years.

Details of applications received and posts approved are set out in the table for the years 1990–91, 1991–92 and 1992–93. These figures include posts whose costs are fully reimbursed by a third party, for example at major airports.

	1990–91		1991–92		1992–93
Force	Posts applied for	Post approved	Posts applied for	Post approved	Posts applied for	Post approved
Avon and Somerset	50	10	9	4	7	2
Bedfordshire	38	38	71	32	76	61
Cambridgeshire	10	7	30	22	10	10
Cheshire	20	20	20	11	20	20
Cleveland	19	13	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Cumbria	50	19	35	8	24	4
Derbyshire	34	19	15	13	56	25
Devon and Cornwall	48	17	31	15	70	48
Dorset	27	14	14	15	26	15
Durham	Nil	Nil	20	11	20	Nil
Dyfed Powys	8	8	Nil	Nil	50	25
Essex	79	69	32	17	58	58
Gloucestershire	Nil	Nil	36	19	48	1
Greater Manchester	248	31	123	36	140	20
Gwent	11	2	9	Nil	10	1
Hampshire	77	25	69	27	69	67
Hertfordshire	35	18	42	11	34	4
Humberside	20	15	40	18	22	9
Kent	50	50	63	34	82	82
Lancashire	81	28	54	22	32	4
Leicestershire	75	53	25	13	27	26
Lincolnshire	20	14	21	8	Nil	Nil
Merseyside	Nil	Nil	49	5	88	Nil
Norfolk	66	46	22	12	25	25
Northamptonshire	29	20	33	25	23	23
Northumbria	243	38	82	26	92	27
North Wales	10	21	Nil	Nil	30	17
North Yorkshire	35	25	15	6	25	4
Nottinghamshire	63	26	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
South Wales	67	31	Nil	Nil	44	Nil
South Yorkshire	50	20	50	18	16	15
Staffordshire	20	14	20	8	20	4
Suffolk	26	18	30	11	30	17
Surrey	50	10	41	11	30	3
Sussex	54	23	49	18	35	32
Thames Valley	158	65	156	40	132	87
Warwickshire	35	15	23	8	15	4
West Mercia	32	32	Nil	Nil	30	29
West Midlands	350	63	148	63	121	19
West Yorkshire	47	20	73	14	79	Nil
Wiltshire	19	13	44	15	77	67
City of London	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Metropolitan	350	150	Nil	100	22	22
Total	2,704	1,120	1,594	716	1,815	877

Volume 205: debated on Tuesday 10 March 1992