Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many new police officers have been recruited since 2019 by region of deployment.

As part of the drive to recruit an additional 20,000 officers by March 2023, the Home Office now publishes “Police officer uplift” statistics on a quarterly basis, which include the number of joining officers in each quarter, broken down by joining month, as well as the number of officers that count towards the uplift.

The latest data in this series, covering the period to September 2020, are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-officer-uplift-quarterly-update-to-september-2020

Table U4 of the accompanying data tables contains information on the number of new recruits, by Police Force Area, in each month since November 2019. Breakdowns at lower levels of geography are not collected.

The next release of the “Police officer uplift” statistics is scheduled for release on Thursday 28^th January, and will cover the period to 31 December 2020. It will be available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics