Asked by: Julie Marson (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the additional 20,000 police officers have been recruited; how many of those 20,000 will be allocated to Hertford and Stortford constituency; and when will they be available.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
In October 2019 Home Office confirmed officer allocations for every force in England and Wales in the first year of the uplift. The Home Office is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council to support all forces deliver these allocations.
Hertfordshire Police has been allocated 91 officers in year 1 of the uplift. It is up to Chief Constables to decide how and where new recruits are deployed.
The Home Office publishes the statistical series 'Police workforce, England and Wales' on a biannual basis. The next publication is scheduled for release on Thursday 30 January and will contain information on the number of officers in post as at 30 September 2019. Data on joiners and leavers are published annually, in the July release of the bulletin, which covers the situation as at 31 March.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-announces-first-wave-of-20000-police-officer-uplift