Community Support Officers: Wales Mrs. Gillan To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many police community support officers there were in each Welsh police force in each year since they were introduced; (2) how many police officers there were in each Welsh police force in each year since 1997. Mr. McNulty The information is shown in the following tables. 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|Police force |19973 |1998|1999|2000|20014|2002|20035|20045|20055|20065|20075| 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|Dyfed-Powys |1,005 |1,002|1,026|1,040|1,055|1,132|1,149|1,160|1,174|1,182|1,177| 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|Gwent |1,243 |1,233|1,247|1,264|1,274|1,333|1,341|1,372|1,438|1,467|1,493| 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|North Wales |1,369 |1,396|1,391|1,403|1,444|1,506|1,539|1,603|1,652|1,617|1,591| 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|South Wales |2,976 |2,986|2,981|2,926|3,154|3,222|3,239|3,279|3,281|3,263|3,297| 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|1 This table contains 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.2 Full-time equivalent excludes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.3 Boundary changes on 1 April 1996 transferred resources for the policing of the Rhymney Valley from South Wales Police to Gwent Police.4 Boundary changes on 1 April 2000 transferred some resources from the Metropolitan Police to Essex, Hertfordshire and Surrey police forces.5 Comparable strength (excludes those on career breaks, or maternity/paternity leave). The Police Numbers Task Force (2001) recommended that a clear presentation was made of the numbers of staff employed by police forces including those seconded into the force and those on any type of long or short term absence. These new calculations were first used in 2003, and are not comparable with data prior to March 2003. The data from 2003 onwards used here are termed comparable because they have been calculated on the old basis to allow comparison.| | 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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Police force |2003 |2004|20054|20064|20074| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Dyfed-Powys |0 |5|25|26|77| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Gwent |30 |45|77|76|105| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |North Wales |0 |0|59|58|145| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |South Wales |0 |59|107|111|314| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1 This table contains 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.2 Full-time equivalent includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.3 Police community support officers were introduced in statute in 2002, therefore data is not available prior to 2002-03.4 Strength figures as at 31 March 2005 onwards include those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Therefore these figures are not comparable with those provided for other years in the table.| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------