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Police: Romford

Volume 486: debated on Tuesday 20 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police (a) officers, (b) constables, (c) sergeants and (d) community support officers were working in Romford constituency in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2008. (247692)

Police strength data are not collected by parliamentary constituency areas. Data are collected at the basic command unit (BCU) level and at the force level. Romford is within the Havering BCU.

The information requested is published annually in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin “Police Service Strength, England and Wales” copies of which are available online and in the Library of the House.

BCU data are not collected by police rank and so data relating to Havering BCU for all officers and for PCSOs are given in the following links:

31 March 2007

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb1307add_tab.xls.

31 March 2008

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0808add_tab.xls.

Data for the police ranks requested are collected at the force level and so data relating to the Metropolitan Police Service for each officer rank (Table 4) and for PCSOs (Table 10a) are given in the following links:

31 March 2007

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb1307.pdf

31 March 2008

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0808.pdf.