§ Mr. JohnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out for each police authority area in England and Wales the current establishment of police officers and the shortfall where applicable in the actual numbers of police officers in service below that establishment.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe information is as follows:
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Force Establishment as at 31 March 1988 Vacancies Avon and Somerset 3,030 17 Bedfordshire 1,020 21 Cambridgeshire 1,160 — Cheshire 1,845 8 Cleveland 1,474 8 Cumbria 1,144 3 Derbyshire 1,793 3 Devon and Cornwall 2,802 15 Dorset 1,235 1 Durham 1,357 28 Dyfed Powys 935 18 Essex 2,742 14 Gloucestershire 1,164 11 Greater Manchester 6,943 — Gwent 986 7 Hampshire 3,105 2 Hertfordshire 1,631 28 Humberside 1,972 19 Kent 2,911 3 Lancashire 3,158 19 Leicestershire 1,733 — Lincolnshire 1,183 15 Merseyside 4,679 32 Norfolk 1,318 10 Northamptonshire 1,086 — Northumbria 3,453 — North Wales 1,316 16 North Yorkshire 1,368 — Nottinghamshire 2,259 7 South Wales 3,109 — South Yorkshire 2,931 19 Staffordshire 2,156 21 Suffolk 1,186 — Surrey 1,639 — Sussex 2,923 29 Thames Valley 3,486 — Warwickshire 981 2 West Mercia 1,963 17 West Midlands 6,684 45 West Yorkshire 5,204 20
Force Establishment as at 31 March 1988 Vacancies Wiltshire 1,074 — City of London 798 11 Metropolitan 27,815 127 122,751 596