HC Deb 10 July 2000 vol 353 c433W
Mr. Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the additional 5,000 police he recently announced are serving in the Humberside police force. [129609]

Mr. Straw

The Crime Fighting Fund will allow police forces in England and Wales to recruit 5,000 officers over and above the number they had otherwise planned to recruit: 3,000 in 2000–01 and 2,000 in 2001–02.

Humberside have been allocated 74 additional recruits from the Crime Fighting Fund: 47 in 2000–01 and 27 in 2001–02. Nineteen of the Crime Fighting Fund recruits for 2000–01 have been recruited so far and are presently serving in Humberside police.