§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will put a table in theOfficial Report showing (a) his recent allocation of police officers by police authority, (b) the number of police officers requested by the authorities concerned and (c) the number of police officers as a proportion of the population served that will pertain after the new allocations are made.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information is as follows:
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Police posts approved1 Posts applied for Police/population2 for ratio taking into account police increases Avon and Somerset 10 50 458 Bedfordshire 8 8 504 Cambridgeshire 7 10 541 Cheshire 20 20 506 Cleveland 13 19 368 Cumbria 19 50 416 Derbyshire 19 34 510 Devon and Cornwall 17 48 518 Dorset 14 27 516 Durham — — 434 Dyfed Powys — — 495 Essex 55 79 511 Gloucestershire — — 453 Greater Manchester 54 248 366 Gwent 2 11 441 Hampshire 25 27 527 Hertfordshire 18 35 503 Humberside 15 20 424 Kent 50 50 504 Lancashire 28 81 432 Leicestershire 53 75 488 Lincolnshire 14 20 487 Merseyside — — 308 Norfolk 46 66 528 Northamptonshire 20 29 500 Northumbria 38 243 403 North Wales 21 10 478 North Yorkshire 25 35 506 Nottinghamshire 26 63 430 South Wales 31 67 411 South Yorkshire 20 50 431 Staffordshire 14 20 469 Suffolk 18 26 531 Surrey 10 50 449 Sussex 39 54 475 Thames Valley 65 158 530 Warwickshire 15 35 482 West Mercia 32 32 530 West Midlands 63 350 380 West Yorkshire 20 47 390 Wiltshire 13 19 507 City of London — — 5 Metropolitan 150 3— 252 1 In some cases increases are offered subject to the police authority's confirmation that it will meet its share of the cost. 2 Police establishments at 1 April 1990. Population at mid 1988. 3 The Home Secretary is police authority for the Metropolitan Police.