HC Deb 12 January 1987 vol 108 cc62-3W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the total expenditure of each police force and the total staff employed, showing separately the number of civilians in each case.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The information requested, for police areas in England and Wales, is as follows. The expenditure figures in the second column are net of income but not of police grant, and are subject to audit.

Actual strength on 31 March 1986
Police area Provisional outturn 1985/86 (£ thousand) Police officers Civilians Traffic wardens Cadets
Full-time Part-time
North Wales 27,637 1,253 355 99 31
North Yorkshire 29,410 1,361 294 81 21
Nottinghamshire 47,427 2,210 546 130 75
South Wales 68,001 3,066 889 167 95 1
South Yorkshire 63,901 2,848 652 121 65
Staffordshire 44,521 2,087 631 71 39 42
Suffolk 26,836 1,121 369 78 36
Surrey 34,673 1,614 363 114 42
Sussex 57,617 2,790 674 178 121
Thames Valley 75,787 3,297 1,110 155 112
Warwickshire 21,927 929 281 40 24 6
West Mercia 44,428 1,939 696 128 50
West Midlands 141,015 6,520 1,367 294 181 1
West Yorkshire 106,412 5,145 1,141 268 159 33
Wiltshire 23,270 1,043 275 63 44
City of London 24,396 774 308 23 70
Metropolitan 748,660 26,813 12,735 899 1,716 270
Total 2,803,697 119,279 36,284 6,134 4,774 399