Police: Greater London

(asked on 4th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the number of police officers per head of population was in Greater London in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 12th December 2018

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police 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 publication, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales

Data on the number of police officers per 100,000 resident population in the London Region (including City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police Service), as at 31 March each year for each of the last five years, are provided in the table below:

Table 1: Police officers per 100,000 population1, London region2

London region2

Full-time equivalents

As at...

Police officers

Total officers per 100,000 population1

31st March 2014

31,678

376

31st March 2015

32,991

386

31st March 2016

32,827

378

31st March 2017

32,202

366

31st March 2018

31,088

352

Notes

  1. Calculated using Office for National Statistics’ mid-year population estimates for England and Wales.
  1. Includes City of London and the Metropolitan Police Service.
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