HC Deb 06 May 1941 vol 371 cc722-4W
Mr. Mander

asked the Home Secretary whether he will state in respect of each individual police area where women police are employed the numbers serving at the present time?

Mr. H. Morrison

The numbers serving on 29th September last, the latest date for which complete figures are available, are given in the annexed table. These figures are, in general, substantially below the present authorised establishments, and further recruitment has taken place since that date.

Police Force. Members of Regular Force and First Police Reserve. Women's Auxiliary Police Corps.
Whole Time. Part Time.
Attested. Unattested.
Counties—
Brecon 1 2
Bucks 68
Cardigan 1 5
Derby 2 96
Devon 1
Dorset 1
Gloucester 7 10 28
Hereford 4
Herts 2 1 6
Lancashire 16 34
Lincoln 4
Northumberland 1
Nottingham 93
Oxford 2
Salop 3 4
Somerset 12
Stafford 19
Sussex, West 1
Wight, Isle of 21
Yorks, West Riding 2
Cities and Boroughs
Bath 2 2
Birkenhead 1
Birmingham 17
Bolton 5 11
Bootle 1
Bradford 2
Brighton 3
Bristol 5
Cambridge 3 1
Carmarthen 12
Colchester 3
Coventry 3
Derby 1 5 11
Eastbourne 1
Folkestone 1 5 1
Gravesend 2
Great Yarmouth 1
Hastings 1
Hove 2
Huddersfield 1
Hyde 1
Ipswich 2
Leeds 2
Leicester 2 10
Liverpool 3
Manchester 6 20
Middlesbrough 12
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1
Northampton 2 2
Norwich 1 4
Nottingham 4
Oldham 3 2
Oxford 1
Plymouth 1 13 2
Preston 8 7
Reading 2
Rochester 1
St. Albans 3
Salisbury 1
Sheffield 3 5
Southampton 2
Stoke-on-Trent 2
Sunderland 1
Tunbridge Wells 1
Walsall 2 2 14
Wolverhampton 2
Worcester 4
Metropolitan Police Force 148