§ Lord Tebbitasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bassam of Brighton on 3 February (WA 48), whether they will list for each police force the number of recruits whom it had planned to recruit over each of the next three years from April 2000 before the grant of money from the Crime Fighting Fund was announced. [HL1040]
§ Lord Bassam of BrightonIn their bids for a share of the recruitment scheme of the Crime Fighting Fund, forces provided information on their planned recruitment over the next three years. The table shows the projected appointments on probation, excluding transfers in from other forces. Actual recruitment levels will depend on the chief officer's decisions in the light of the available resources—including the outcome of the 2000 Spending Review now under way.
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Projected Appointments on Probation Force 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Total Avon & Somerset 65 80 80 225 Bedfordshire 52 52 52 156 Cambridgeshire 101 52 47 200 Cheshire 70 76 73 219 City of London 50 52 52 154 Cleveland 59 51 47 157 Cumbria 5 60 60 125 Derbyshire 36 60 48 144 Devon & Cornwall 88 48 70 206 Dorset 42 36 31 109 Durham 46 53 51 150 Dyfed-Powys 34 36 14 104 Essex 200 113 115 428 Gloucestershire 90 70 70 230 Greater Manchester 244 279 257 780 Gwent 0 74 51 125 Hampshire 170 152 170 492 Hertfordshire 114 12S 116 358 Humberside 0 0 0 0 Kent 145 60 139 344 Lancashire 80 80 80 240 Leicestershire 71 83 94 248 Lincolnshire 55 55 45 155 Merseyside 40 40 40 120 Metropolitan 692 346 600 1,638 Norfolk 20 31 29 80 North Wales 57 57 57 171 North Yorkshire 60 63 60 183 Northamptonshire 27 37 40 104 12WA
Projected Appointments on Probation Force 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Total Northumbria 154 137 134 425 Nottinghamshire 87 73 73 233 South Wales 192 162 162 516 South Yorkshire 80 80 80 240 Staffordshire 11 34 68 113 Suffolk 16 36 55 107 Surrey 145 212 100 457 Sussex 160 160 160 480 Thames Valley 180 175 166 521
Projected Appointments on Probation Force 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Total Warwickshire 48 48 48 144 West Mercia1 66 50 90 206 West Midlands 330 330 330 990 West Yorkshire 105 105 105 315 Wiltshire 28 27 31 86 Total 4,315 3,953 4,210 12,478 1 West Mercia uncertain about level of budget: 31 or 66 will be recruited in 2000–01.