Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the 20,000 new police officers have been recruited since that target was announced in July 2019; and how many of those officers have been deployed in the London Borough of Southwark.

In October 2019 Home Office confirmed officer allocations for every force in England and Wales in the first year of the uplift. The Home Office is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council to support all forces deliver these allocations.

The Metropolitan Police has been allocated 1,369 officers for the first year. It is up to Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners to decide how and where new recruits are deployed.

The Home Office publishes the statistical series 'Police workforce, England and Wales' on a biannual basis. The next publication is scheduled for release on Thursday 30 January and will contain information on the number of officers in post as at 30 September 2019. Data on joiners and leavers are published annually, in the July release of the bulletin, which covers the situation as at 31 March.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-announces-first-wave-of-20000-police-officer-uplift