Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many community support police officers there were in each London borough in each of the last five years.
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police community support officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales
The Home Office does not collect this information at the borough level. The latest data available on the number of police community support officers in the Metropolitan Police Service and City of London Police, as at 30 September, can be found in Table 1 of the accompanying Data Tables:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2017
Previous years data, as at 31 March each year, can be found in the accompanying Open Data Table: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods