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.
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 | |||
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