Police: Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers have been employed in (i) South Tyneside, (ii) the North East and (iii) England and Wales in each year since 2008. (313488)

The available data can be seen in the following table.

This and other related data are published annually as a supplementary part of the annual Police Service Strength Home Office Statistical Bulletin. The latest bulletin can be found at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/policeorg1.html

and bulletins for this and previous years are deposited in the Library of the House.

*Police officer and police community support officer strength, South Tyneside, north-east, England and Wales, as at 31 March*¹
	2008	2009
	Officer	PCSO	Officer	PCSO
South Tyneside	341	24	357	27
North-East	7,307	585	7,455	628
England and Wales	141,859	15,805	143,770	16,507
¹ These figures are based on full-time equivalents that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, due to rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. Figures include those officers on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.

Volume 504: debated on Tuesday 26 January 2010