Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers, (b) police staff and (c) police community support officers were in post in Northumbria in each year from 2010 until the most recent period for which data is available.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers, police staff, and Police Community Support officers (PCSOs) employed by each Police Force Area in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical publication.

Data on the number of police officers, police staff and PCSOs in Northumbria, as at 31 March each year and going back to March 2007, 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