Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers there were in (i) Balham ward, (ii) Trinity ward, (iii) Tooting Bec ward, (iv) Tooting Broadway ward, (v) Furzedown ward, (vi) Wandsworth Common ward, (vii) Wandle ward, (viii) South Balham ward and (ix) Wandsworth Town ward in the London Borough of Wandsworth in 2022.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), on a bi-annual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin.

These data are collected by PFA only, and lower levels of geography, such as London Boroughs are not collected. Data on the number of police officers and Police Community Support Officers in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as at 31 March and 30 September each year, on a full-time equivalent (FTE) and headcount basis, accessed here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

While the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of police officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, also broken down by PFA. They can be accessed here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The latest data from the ‘Police Officer Uplift’ statistics shows, as at 31 March 2023, across England and Wales, there are 149,572 police officers, the highest number of police officers on record, surpassing the previous peak in March 2010 by 3,542 officers.