Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) neighbourhood police officers and (b) police officers in visible frontline roles there were in each police force area in each of the last five years.
The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the primary function of police officers, by Police Force Area, as part of the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.
Functions data are collected under the Police Objective Analysis (POA) framework. Officers with multiple responsibilities are recorded under their primary function. The number and proportion of officers employed in frontline policing roles can be calculated according to the frontline policing model set out by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).
Data on the number of full time equivalent neighbourhood police officers in each Police Force Area in England and Wales at 31 March 2018 can be found in Table_F1 of the accompanying data tables:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/728153/police-workforce-tabs-jul18.ods
Data for previous years is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales
Data on the number of full time equivalent officers in frontline policing roles in each Police Force Area in England and Wales, in each of the last five years, can be found in Table_F5 of the accompanying data tables:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/728153/police-workforce-tabs-jul18.ods
Data on the number of police officers in frontline and neighbourhood policing roles at 31 March 2019 are due to be published on 18 July 2019.