§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will produce a table showing the average age of police constables by police authority area.
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§ Mr. Peter Lloyd[holding answer 7 December 1989]: The information requested is set out in the table.
Police Authority Area Average age, Constable rank as at 31 December 19881 Avon and Somerset 33 Bedfordshire 32 Cambridgeshire 33 Cheshire 33 Cleveland 33 Cumbria 32 Derbyshire 33 Devon and Cornwall 34 Dorset 34 Durham 32 Dyfed Powys 33 Essex 33 Gloucestershire 34 Greater Manchester 32 Gwent 32 Hampshire Hertfordshire 32 Humberside 33 Kent 33 Lancashire 34 Leicestershire 32 Lincolnshire 34 London, City of 33 Merseyside 33 Metropolitan Police 31 Norfolk 35 Northamptonshire 32 Northumbria 34 North Wales 33 North Yorkshire 33 Nottinghamshire 31 South Wales 33 South Yorkshire 32 Staffordshire 32 Suffolk 33 Surrey 33 Sussex 34 Thames Valley 32 Warwickshire 35 West Mercia 33 West Midlands 32 West Yorkshire 32 Wiltshire 33 1 This is the latest date for which analysis of age and rank is available. An analysis of England and Wales for all ranks can be found in Appendix 12 of HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary's Annual Report 1988, a copy of which can be found in the Library.