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Police: Manpower

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 12 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers there are (a) in the North East, (b) on Teesside and (c) in the area corresponding as closely as possible to Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland; and how many there were in 1997. (139813)

The corresponding data for the requested areas are: (a) the North East Government Region (encompassing Cleveland, Durham and Northumbria police force areas); (b) the Cleveland police force area; and (c) the Basic Command Units (BCUs) within the Cleveland police force area, namely Hartlepool, Langbaurgh, Middlesbrough and Stockton.

Data are not available at the BCU level for 1997; and the available data are given in the following tables.

1. Police officer strength (FTE)1 in the North East Government region as at 31 March 1997 and 31 March 2006

31 March 1997

31 March 2006

North East Government office region

6,597

7,359

1 Full-time equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. All officers excluding those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave (comparable with previously published figures). Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.

2. Police officer strength (FTE)1 in Cleveland police force area as at 31 March 1997 and 31 March 2006

31 March 1997

31 March 2006

Cleveland police force

1,459

1,677

1. Full-time equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. All officers excluding those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave (comparable with previously published figures). Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.

3. Police officer strength (FTE)1 in the Basic Command Units within Cleveland police force area as at 31 March 1997 and 31 March 20062

31 March 2006

Hartlepool BCU

187

Langbaurgh BCU (Redcar and Cleveland)

232

Middlesbrough BCU

287

Stockton BCU

277

Central Services BCU

720

1 Full-time equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. All officers including those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. 2 Basic Command Unit data are not available for 1997.