Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers, (b) police constables, (c) police community support officers and (d) special constables there were in each police force area in each year since 2010.

The Home Office collects and publishes data bi-annually on the number of police officers, Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and Special Constables, by Police Force Area, as part of the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.

Data on the number of Officers, by Police Force Area and by rank, the number of PCSOs and Special constables, for each Police Force in England and Wales, going back to March 2007, can be found in the Open Data Tables published alongside the release:https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods

The latest published figures, representing the picture as at 30 September 2018, can be accessed in the accompanying data tables here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2018

The next release of ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ is scheduled for publication on Thursday 18 July 2019, and will cover the situation as at 31 March 2019.