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Mr. Denham
The Office of Manpower Economics (OME) undertakes an annual sample survey of police officers' pay, including overtime pay for constables and sergeants, on behalf of the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom.
The latest figures available from the survey show average weekly overtime payments made to constables and sergeants in the different regions, in respect of the pay period—two weeks, four weeks or a calendar month—which included 6 November 2001. These are calculated from grossed up figures by dividing the total overtime payments received by the officers in the rank by the total number of officers in that rank.
The results of the sample survey are set out in the first set of tables.
The Home Department has collected figures for the cost of overtime in 2001–02 for each police force in England and Wales. The figures are set out in the final table.
| OME survey: November 2001 |
| Uniformed constables |
|
|
£ week |
|
Overtime pay |
| Region |
Rest day with less than 8 days notice |
Rest day with between 8 and 14 days notice |
Other overtime |
| London |
39.63 |
4.70 |
45.36 |
| Ulster |
16.73 |
9.43 |
95.51 |
| Scotland |
10.18 |
2.13 |
26.62 |
| Metropolitan authorities |
6.55 |
10.33 |
17.70 |
| Shire counties |
8.52 |
5.43 |
18.90 |
| Wales |
2.07 |
1.67 |
16.71 |
| Uniformed sergeants |
|
|
£ week |
|
Overtime pay |
| Region |
Rest day with less than 8 days notice |
Rest day with between 8 and 14 days notice |
Other overtime |
| London |
40.19 |
6.24 |
40.37 |
| Ulster |
17.04 |
11.38 |
91.40 |
| Scotland |
9.35 |
3.38 |
28.76 |
| Metropolitan authorities |
9.84 |
13.83 |
18.90 |
| Shire counties |
14.47 |
10.20 |
21.98 |
| Wales |
2.59 |
0.00 |
18.11 |
840W
| Detective constables |
|
|
£week |
|
Overtime pay |
| Region |
Rest day with less than 8 days notice |
Rest day with between 8 and 14 days notice |
Other overtime |
| London |
15.38 |
2.92 |
82.31 |
| Ulster |
54.40 |
2.57 |
142.72 |
| Scotland |
26.24 |
0.89 |
79.90 |
| Metropolitan authorities |
13.83 |
4.59 |
49.91 |
| Shire counties |
14.24 |
2.77 |
54.27 |
| Wales |
4.22 |
0.43 |
65.90 |
| Detective sergeants |
|
|
£week |
|
Overtime pay |
| Region |
Rest day with less than 8 days notice |
Rest day with between 8 and 14 days notice |
Other overtime |
| London |
18.38 |
6.95 |
88.85 |
| Ulster |
54.98 |
10.56 |
166.22 |
| Scotland |
16.83 |
0.49 |
75.13 |
| Metropolitan authorities |
59.58 |
8.58 |
64.05 |
| Shire counties |
20.00 |
3.39 |
62.76 |
| Wales |
8.99 |
0.00 |
64.63 |
| Cost of overtime in each police force in England and Wales in 2001–02 |
| Police force |
£ |
| Avon and Somerset |
4,714,390 |
| Bedfordshire |
4,008,599 |
| Cambridgeshire |
4,055,694 |
| Cheshire |
3,344,000 |
| City of London |
2,374,926 |
| Cleveland |
3,620,343 |
| Cumbria |
2,094,538 |
| Derbyshire |
3,414,300 |
| Devon and Cornwall |
7,913,000 |
| Dorset |
2,322,306 |
| Durham |
3,177,000 |
| Dyfed Powys |
1,650,497 |
| Essex |
8,310,695 |
| Gloucestershire |
2,343,186 |
| Greater Manchester |
15,609,544 |
| Gwent |
2,138,923 |
| Hampshire |
8,556,000 |
| Hertfordshire |
7,239,000 |
| Humberside |
5,673,104 |
| Kent |
8,350,000 |
| Lancashire |
6,773,248 |
| Leicestershire |
3,323,212 |
| Lincolnshire |
2,446,521 |
| Merseyside |
10,801,000 |
| Metropolitan |
97,031,835 |
| Norfolk |
3,349,363 |
| North Wales |
2,635,500 |
| North Yorks |
3,541,849 |
| Northamptonshire |
2,475,000 |
| Northumbria |
5,877,079 |
| Nottinghamshire |
4,167,751 |
| South Wales |
5,550,387 |
| South Yorkshire |
6,446,000 |
| Staffordshire |
5,928,705 |
| Suffolk |
1,715,805 |
| Surrey |
5,109,411 |
| Sussex |
7,424,486 |
| Thames Valley |
12,025,000 |
| Warwickshire |
1,816,720 |
841W
| Cost of overtime in each police force in England and Wales in 2001–02 |
| Police force |
£ |
| West Mercia |
4,343,857 |
| West Midlands |
15,870,406 |
| West Yorkshire |
11,836,000 |
| Wiltshire |
1,814,642 |