HC Deb 07 December 1987 vol 124 cc1-2W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the 114 additional police posts for the Nottinghamshire constabulary since May 1979 were granted since May 1981.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

None of these additional police posts was approved since May 1981. One hundred and fifteen additional police posts were approved on 31 December 1979, and an application to decrease the authorised police establishment by one post of sergeant was approved on 19 February 1981.