HC Deb 18 January 1995 vol 252 c527W
Mr. Ronnie Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the ratio of police officers to(a) population and (b) crimes in the Northumberland police authority area.

Mr. Maclean

The report of Her Majesty's chief inspector of constabulary for 1993 gives a ratio of one police officer to every 399 persons in Northumbria.

Taking recorded crime for the year to June 1994 and force establishment at 30 June 1994, there were 58 crimes per police officer in Northumbria.