Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Police Community Support Officers (FTE) where there in the Cambridgeshire police force area on (a) 4 July 2024 and (b) on 13 October 2026.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales, on a bi-annual basis, as at 31 March and 30 September each year in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.
Data for this release is collected at Police Force Area (PFA) level as a snapshot at 31 March and 30 September only. As such, data for Cambridgeshire as at 4 July 2024 and 13 October 2026 is not available.
The latest information covers the situation as at 31 March 2026. Information on the number of police officers and police community support officers (PCSOs), broken down by PFA, at the end of each financial year (31 March) from 2007 to 2026 can be found in the ‘Police Workforce Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a58d48c7eb057103bd945ba/open-data-table-police-workforce-220726.ods.
Data on the police workforce as at 30 September 2026 is due to be published in January 2027.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Police Officers (FTE) were there in the Cambridgeshire police force area on (a) 4 July 2024 and (b) on 13 October 2026.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales, on a bi-annual basis, as at 31 March and 30 September each year in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.
Data for this release is collected at Police Force Area (PFA) level as a snapshot at 31 March and 30 September only. As such, data for Cambridgeshire as at 4 July 2024 and 13 October 2026 is not available.
The latest information covers the situation as at 31 March 2026. Information on the number of police officers and police community support officers (PCSOs), broken down by PFA, at the end of each financial year (31 March) from 2007 to 2026 can be found in the ‘Police Workforce Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a58d48c7eb057103bd945ba/open-data-table-police-workforce-220726.ods.
Data on the police workforce as at 30 September 2026 is due to be published in January 2027.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Police Officers (FTE) and (b) Police Community Support Officers (FTE) where assigned to each of the Neighbourhood Policing Teams in Cambridgeshire as at (i) 4 July 2024 and (ii) on 13 October 2026.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office publishes information on the number of police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in neighbourhood policing roles on a biannual basis, as at 31 March and 30 September, as part of the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.
This data is collected by PFA level only, and information at lower levels of geography are not collected.
The latest information on the number of neighbourhood police officers and PCSOs in neighbourhood policing roles in Cambridgeshire Constabulary, on a full-time equivalent (FTE) basis, covers the situation as at 31 March 2026, and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2026
The next release of the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which will cover information on the number police officers and PCSOs in post as at 30 September 2026 is due to be published in January 2027.