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Metropolitan Police: Civilians

Volume 458: debated on Wednesday 28 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Metropolitan Police civilian staff are based in each London borough. (129461)

The available data are at the Basic Command Unit (BCU) level and are given in the table.

Within the Metropolitan Police force area, borough boundaries are coterminous with BCU boundaries with the addition of the Heathrow airport BCU and the Central Services BCU (Central Services does not have a geographic boundary).

Police staff1 strength (FTE)2 by Metropolitan Police force basic command unit3, as at 31 March 2006

Basic command unit

Police staff

Barking and Dagenham

130

Barnet

171

Bexley

165

Brent

172

Bromley

149

Camden

265

City of Westminster

617

Croydon

203

Ealing

181

Enfield

158

Greenwich

172

Hackney

204

Hammersmith and Fulham

151

Haringey

187

Harrow

108

Havering

128

Hillingdon

145

Hounslow

135

Islington

131

Kensington and Chelsea

224

Kingston upon Thames

104

Lambeth

272

Lewisham

188

Merton

105

Newham

226

Redbridge

152

Richmond upon Thames

116

Southwark

244

Sutton

125

Tower Hamlets

250

Waltham Forest

157

Wandsworth

179

1 Police staff include police community support officers, traffic wardens and designated officers.

2 Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, due to rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. Figures include those officers on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.

3 In addition to the BCUs which are coterminous with London boroughs, Heathrow airport BCU has 185 staff, and Central Services has 10,640 staff.