HC Deb 31 March 1994 vol 240 cc941-2W
Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the ratio of police officers per head of the local population for each of the police forces in England and Wales.

Mr. Charles Wardle

Ratios of population per police officer for forces in England and Wales as at 31 December 1993 are given in the table.

Police force Population per officer1
Avon and Somerset 467
Bedfordshire 456
Cambridgeshire 546
Cheshire 504
Policeforce Population per officer1
City of London 5
Cleveland 373
Cumbria 413
Derbyshire 512
Devon and Cornwall 519
Dorset 510
Durham 437
Dyfed Powys 485
Essex 503
Gloucestershire 457
Gwent 445
Hampshire 524
Hertfordshire 502
Humberside 433
Kent 490
Lancashire 438
Leicestershire 487
Lincolnshire 495
Merseyside 307
Metropolitan 265
Norfolk 528
Northamptonshire 496
Northumbria 399
North Wales 478
North Yorkshire 510
Nottinghamshire 437
South Wales 418
South Yorkshire 430
Staffordshire 475
Suffolk 526
Surrey 460
Sussex 475
Thames Valley 522
Warwickshire 482
West Mercia 537
West Midlands 377
West Yorkshire 395
Wiltshire 490
1 Ratios are based on approved establishments.