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Essex Police Authority: Manpower

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police officers and (b) operational police officers per head of population there were in Essex Police Authority in (i) 2007 and (ii) to date in 2008. (217744)

The available data are given in the following table.

Data are collected annually and data relating to 31 March 2008 will be released on 22 July 2008.

Police officer strength for Essex police force area, as at 31 March 2007 (FTE)1,2

Total officers per 100,000 population

Total operational officers per 100,000 population

20073

203

196

1 Full-time equivalent. This figure includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.

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.

3 Functional group totals do not match published figures. Data quality may be an issue with this force.