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Police: Cumbria

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 8 January 2008

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Tim Farron

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many serving police officers there were in (a) Cumbria and (b) Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency in each of the last 10 years. (175386)

Mr. McNulty

[holding answer 18 December 2007]: Figures for Cumbria appear in the following table. Figures for Westmorland and Lonsdale are not collected centrally, as local area police personnel figures are collected at Basic Command Unit rather than constituency level.

Number of police officers in Cumbria: 1997-2007

Police officers1

As at 31 March:

1997

1,144

1998

1,164

1999

1,126

2000

1,084

2001

1,048

2002

1,100

2003

1,140

2004

1,222

2005

1,232

2006

1,230

2007

1,244

1 All figures are full time equivalents (FTE) rounded to the nearest whole number. They exclude officers on maternity/paternity leave and career breaks.