§ Mr. MitchellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the additional 5,000 police he recently announced are serving in the Humberside police force. [129609]
§ Mr. StrawThe Crime Fighting Fund will allow police forces in England and Wales to recruit 5,000 officers over and above the number they had otherwise planned to recruit: 3,000 in 2000–01 and 2,000 in 2001–02.
Humberside have been allocated 74 additional recruits from the Crime Fighting Fund: 47 in 2000–01 and 27 in 2001–02. Nineteen of the Crime Fighting Fund recruits for 2000–01 have been recruited so far and are presently serving in Humberside police.