Police Community Support Officers
(asked on 26th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many police community support officers were in post in each police force in England and Wales in each year from 2008 until the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Home Office publishes data on the police workforce, broken down by worker type and police force, as part of the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ series of statistical bulletins.
The attached tables, which are too large to include in the answer contain data on the number of full time equivalent police officers and police staff in each force as at 31 March in each year between 1996 and 2016, and the number of full time equivalent Police Community Support Officers as at 31 March in each year between 2008 and 2016.
As HMIC has made clear, there is no simple link between officer numbers and crime levels, between numbers and the visibility of police or between numbers and the quantity of service provided.