Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the average cost to a police authority of employing a (a) police officer and (b) police community support officer; and what estimate she has made of that cost in each year from 2016-17 to 2019-20.
Police authorities were abolished in 2012. Police and Crime Commissioners are now responsible for local priorities. The Home Office has estimated the costs of police officers and police community support officers based on average full time equivalent costs and predicted cost increases. The costs include the employers’ portion of National Insurance and pension contributions.
£ | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 |
Average Officer | 47,800 | 50,000 | 50,800 | 51,500 | 52,400 |
Average PSCO | 32,300 | 33,400 | 33,800 | 34,200 | 34,700 |