§ Mr. Richard Pageasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has reached decisions on the applications from police authorities for increases in police force establishments of provincial forces in the next financial year 1987–88.
§ Mr. HurdI have approved 209 additional police posts for the following nine provincial police forces with effect from 1 April 1987.
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Police authority/force Increase approved Avon and Somerset 10 Cambridgeshire 20 Devon and Cornwall 20 Dorset 9 Northamptonshire 20 Staffordshire 25
Police authority/force Increase approved Sussex 66 Warwickshire 14 Wiltshire 25 209 With the 98 additional police posts approved previously for three forces with effect from 1 April 1987 (eight for Cumbria, 40 for Northumbria and 50 for Thames Valley), increases totalling 307 police posts have so far been approved in provincial forces for the next financial year, 1987–88. Four other police authorities have been informed that I am prepared to approve increases totalling 141 police posts provided that they are able to give assurances about local financial provision for these additional posts in 1987–88.