There is a range of specialist training available to police forces for those working in child protection. This includes the ‘Specialist Child Abuse Investigators Development Programme’ and local multi-agency training in relation to Working Together guidance. The only data held centrally relate to the online element of the Specialist Child Abuse Investigators Development Programme and these are shown in the table.
ACPO region Police force Number enrolled Eastern Bedfordshire Police 6 Cambridgeshire Constabulary 39 Essex Police 24 Hertfordshire Constabulary 35 Norfolk Constabulary 9 Suffolk Constabulary 2 Total Eastern 115 East Midlands Derbyshire Constabulary 8 Leicestershire Constabulary 18 Lincolnshire Police 4 Northamptonshire Police 5 Nottinghamshire Police 4 Total East Midlands 39 London City of London Police 2 Metropolitan Police 162 Total London 164 North East Cleveland Police 0 Durham Constabulary 0 Humberside Police 1 Northumbria Police 47 North Yorkshire Police 1 South Yorkshire Police 0 West Yorkshire Police 4 Total North East 53 North West Cheshire Constabulary 14 Cumbria Constabulary 33 Greater Manchester Police 35 Lancashire Constabulary 17 Merseyside Police 51 Total North West 150 South East Hampshire Constabulary 3 Kent Police 32 Surrey Police 2 Sussex Police 7 Thames Valley Police 4 Total South East 48 South West Avon and Somerset Constabulary 64 Devon and Cornwall Constabulary 15 Dorset Police 1 Gloucestershire Constabulary 3 Wiltshire Constabulary 2 Total South West 85 West Midlands Staffordshire Police 4 Warwickshire Police 4 West Mercia Constabulary 57 West Midlands Police 97 Total West Midlands 162 Wales Dyfed-Powys Police 2 Gwent Police 6 North Wales Police 0 South Wales Police 8 Total Wales 16 Other Police Service of Northern Ireland 86 National Policing Improvement Agency 17 Total other 103 Total 935 Note: Information about completion rate is not held centrally.