To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many uniformed police officers North Yorkshire police employed in (a)1991, (b)1997 and (c)2002. [102645]
Information about the number of uniformed police officers is not collected centrally. Total police officer and civilian support staff strength figures for North Yorkshire are given in the following table. The force had a record number of officers at 31 March 2002.
| North Yorkshire police | ||
| Police officer strength | Civilian support staff | |
| 31 March 1991 | 1,387 | 449 |
| 31 March 1997 | 1,338 | 519 |
| 31 March 2002 | 1,417 | 743 |
Source:
Home Office Statistical Bulletins—Police Service Strength—1997 to 2002 and historical data.
By 31 March 2002, total police service strength in England and Wales had reached the record number of 129,603, on track for the Government's targets of 130,000 by March 2003 and 132,500 in 2004.
Under the Crime Fighting Fund (CFF) recruitment initiative North Yorkshire police were allocated 68 recruits over and above the force's previous recruitment plans for the three years to March 2003. In 2003–04, in addition to funding for the continuing cost of these
Number of Asian/Asian British police
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Forces
| 1997–98
| 1998–99
| 1999–2000
| 2000–01
| 2001–02
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| Avon and Somerset | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| Bedfordshire | 16 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 23 |
| Cambridgeshire | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| Cheshire | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| City of London | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| Cleveland | 13 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 14 |
| Cumbria | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 21 | 20 | 25 | 27 | 29 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Dorset | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Durham | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Essex | 9 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
| Gloucestershire | 7 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Great Manchester | 60 | 58 | 61 | 63 | 70 |
| Gwent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| Hampshire | 12 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 15 |
| Hertfordshire | 5 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 12 |
recruits, a further £23,000 will be available to the force from the Crime Fighting Fund. We estimate that this will allow a strength increase of up to four officers by the end of 2003–04.