Force organisation and deployment of resources are matters for individual chief officers of police. Information is therefore not available in the form requested. Information on the number of officers in each force whose main function is traffic and the percentage this represents of the force’s total number of officers is in the table as follows.
31 March 2006 Percentage of officers whose main function is Traffic from total strength Avon and Somerset 215 6.2 Bedfordshire 81 6.6 Cambridgeshire 99 6.8 Cheshire 85 3.9 Cleveland 61 3.6 Cumbria 111 8.7 Derbyshire 119 5.7 Devon and Cornwall 215 6.1 Dorset 81 5.4 Durham 105 6.1 Dyfed Powys 143 12.0 Essex 243 7.3 Gloucestershire 73 5.6 Greater Manchester 342 4.2 Gwent 102 7.0 Hampshire 240 6.3 Hertfordshire 149 6.9 Humberside 181 8.1 Kent 116 3.2 Lancashire 197 5.4 Leicestershire 77 3.4 Lincolnshire 102 8.2 London, City of 24 2.7 Merseyside 138 3.2 Metropolitan Police 603 1.9 Norfolk 112 7.1 Northamptonshire 63 4.7 Northumbria 167 4.1 North Wales 81 5.0 North Yorkshire 97 5.9 Nottinghamshire 134 5.3 South Wales 243 7.3 South Yorkshire 141 4.3 Staffordshire 28 1.2 Suffolk 80 6.1 Surrey 99 5.1 Sussex 160 5.1 Thames Valley 236 5.5 Warwickshire 97 9.3 West Mercia 116 4.9 West Midlands 401 4.9 West Yorkshire 343 6.0 Wiltshire 13 1.1 1 Staff with multiple responsibilities (or designations) are recorded under their primary role or function. The traffic function includes staff who are predominantly employed on motorcycles or in patrol vehicles for the policing of traffic and motorway related duties. This does not include officers employed in accident investigation, vehicle examination and radar duties. 2 This and other tables contain full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. Includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.