While information is collected on the number of police officers primarily employed in the function ‘traffic’, it is not possible to show the number or proportion of police officers specifically employed in speed enforcement as this is only part of their duties.
The available data are for the number of full-time equivalent police officers primarily employed in the function ‘traffic’, and are given in the following table.
The deployment of police officers to speed enforcement activity is an operational matter for individual chief officers and police authorities.
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-006 2006-007 Avon and Somerset 216 222 228 215 148 Bedfordshire 75 80 80 81 68 Cambridgeshire 85 99 101 99 96 Cheshire 194 200 194 85 91 Cleveland 64 73 — 61 72 Cumbria 107 110 108 111 114 Derbyshire 107 121 116 119 110 Devon and Cornwall 192 198 211 215 225 Dorset 91 86 82 81 80 Durham 111 119 108 105 100 Essex 241 242 243 243 231 Gloucestershire 62 66 67 73 67 Greater Manchester 406 392 359 342 352 Hampshire 248 246 244 240 237 Hertfordshire 150 151 149 149 145 Humberside 123 119 225 181 100 Kent 104 — 122 116 109 Lancashire 198 187 190 197 184 Leicestershire 92 95 85 77 72 Lincolnshire 90 89 96 102 100 London, City of 24 24 28 24 23 Merseyside 125 119 115 138 150 Metropolitan Police 583 592 1029 603 611 Norfolk 120 121 107 112 110 Northamptonshire 70 71 65 63 63 Northumbria 245 253 165 167 172 North Yorkshire 151 138 101 97 99 Nottinghamshire — 121 133 134 139 South Yorkshire 180 127 134 141 143 Staffordshire 50 49 58 28 35 Suffolk 68 72 76 80 77 Surrey 108 110 107 99 87 Sussex 164 163 163 160 169 Thames Valley 259 259 245 236 237 Warwickshire 103 103 93 97 93 West Mercia 292 115 117 116 129 West Midlands 384 405 393 401 383 West Yorkshire 320 314 317 343 324 Wiltshire 91 96 93 — 89 Dyfed Powys 136 105 141 143 136 Gwent 93 95 96 102 95 North Wales 115 114 76 81 98 South Wales 243 245 243 243 252 1 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. 2. 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. The does not include officers employed in accident investigation, vehicle examination and radar duties.