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Mr. Wallace
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the ratio of police officers to civilian support staff in (a) each police force in England and i(b) overall in England. [34302]
Mr. Maclean
The ratio of police officers to civilian support staff in each police force in England as at 31 March 1995 is set out in the table. Overall in England the ratio is 2.2:1.
| Ratio of police officers to civilians support staff1 in each police force in England as at 31 March 1995 | |
| Force | Ratio |
| Avon and Somerset | 2.3:1 |
| Bedfordshire | 2.2:1 |
| Cambridgeshire | 2.6:1 |
| Cheshire | 3.0:1 |
| Cleveland | 2.6:1 |
| Cumbria | 2.5:1 |
| Derbyshire | 2.7:1 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 2.3:1 |
| Dorset | 2.0:1 |
| Durham | 2.7:1 |
| Essex | 2.2:1 |
| Gloucestershire | 2.8:1 |
| Greater Manchester | 2.4:1 |
| Hampshire | 2.5:1 |
| Hertfordshire | 2.2:1 |
| Humberside | 3.1:1 |
| Kent | 2.6:1 |
| Lancashire | 2.6:1 |
| Leicestershire | 2.4:1 |
| Lincolnshire | 2.3:1 |
| Merseyside | 2.7:1 |
| Norfolk | 2.6:1 |
| Northamptonshire | 2.4:1 |
| Northumbria | 2.6:1 |
| North Yorkshire | 2.4:1 |
| Nottinghamshire | 2.4:1 |
| South Yorkshire | 2.5:1 |
| Staffordshire | 2.8:1 |
| Suffolk | 2.2:1 |
| Surrey | 2.1:1 |
| Sussex | 2.5:1 |
| Thames Valley | 2.1:1 |
| Warwickshire | 2.6:1 |
| West Mercia | 2.0:1 |
| West Midlands | 2.5:1 |
| West Yorkshire | 2.4:1 |
| Wiltshire | 2.6:1 |
| City of London | 2.6:1 |
| Metropolitan | 1.7:1 |
| Overall in England | 2.2:1 |