To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were based in Nottingham North constituency in (a) 1997 and (b) the last year for which information is available. (309301)

Police personnel statistics are not collected by parliamentary constituency. Nottingham, North constituency is in the ‘City of Nottingham’ basic command unit (BCU) (area C). Data for police officers by BCU for Nottinghamshire were first available as at 31 March 2003.

There were 821 police officers in ‘City of Nottingham’ BCU as at 31 March 2003 and 783 police officers as at 31 March 2009.