Sir Peter HordenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing the number of police officers per 1,000 population in each area of the country, excluding the number of officers serving at Gatwick airport from the Sussex forces.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe information is as follows:
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Force Police Officers per 1,000 population1 Avon and Somerset 2.18 Bedfordshire 1.98 Cambridgeshire 1.86 Cheshire 1.96 Cleveland 2.64 Cumbria 2.35 Derbyshire 1.96 Devon and Cornwall 1.95 Dorset 1.94 Durham 2.26 Dyfed Powys 2.07 Essex 1.92 Gloucestershire 2.25 Greater Manchester 2.69 Gwent 2.25 Hampshire 1.89 Hertfordshire 1.94 Humberside 2.32 Kent 1.96 Lancashire 2.29 Leicestershire 1.98 Lincolnshire 2.09 Merseyside 3.19 Norfolk 1.84 Northamptonshire 2.00 Northumbria 2.42 North Wales 2.09 North Yorkshire 1.95 Nottinghamshire 2.28 South Wales 2.40 South Yorkshire 2.27 Staffordshire 2.12 Suffolk 1.89 Surrey 2.18 Sussex 1.89 Thames Valley 1.86 Warwickshire 2.04 West Mercia 1.87 West Midlands 2.57 West Yorkshire 2.55 Wiltshire 1.97 City of London 159.60 Metropolitan 3.88 1 Latest Establishments and mid 1986 population figures. The figures are in the form requested, but do not allow for extraction for airport duties from forces other than Sussex.