(2) how many police community support officers have been assigned to each London borough without safer neighbourhood teams;
(3) how many police community support officers have been (a) requested by and (b) assigned to each London borough.
Data on police strength are not available at the ward level. The available data for police community support officer (PCSO) strength for each London borough are by basic command unit (BCU) of the Metropolitan Police Service (MRS). These data are given in the table. The boundaries of London boroughs are coterminous with those of the BCUs within the MPS.
Every BCU in the MPS has safer neighbourhood teams (SNTs). There are 630 SNTs in the MPS covering all 624 wards across the MPS. Every team has at least one sergeant, two constables and three PCSOs.
The number of PCSOs requested by each London borough is not collected centrally within police personnel statistics. The number of PCSOs assigned to each London borough is available in the form previously described, and is given in the following table.
Basic command unit PCSO strength Kensington and Chelsea 104 Westminster 300 Camden 62 Hammersmith and Fulham 67 Hackney 67 Tower Hamlets 85 Waltham Forest 67 Redbridge 80 Havering 69 Newham 88 Barking and Dagenham 63 Lambeth 101 Southwark 75 Islington 59 Lewisham 69 Bromley 109 Harrow 66 Brent 64 Greenwich 77 Bexley 81 Barnet 92 Richmond upon Thames 64 Hounslow 77 Kingston upon Thames 53 Merton 71 Wandsworth 76 Ealing 77 Hillingdon 74 Enfield 94 Haringey 66 Croydon 109 Sutton 64 Borough total 2,668 1 Table has been provided by the Metropolitan Police Service and the Home Office Police Productivity Unit.