HC Deb 23 June 2000 vol 352 cc341-3W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of police officers in each police force in England and Wales and in total on(a) 31 March 1979, (b) 31 March 1987 and (c) 31 March in each year since 1992. [127212]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The information requested for March 1979 and March 1987 is set out in the table. For 1992 and subsequent years, I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Ryedale (Mr. Greenway) on 10 November 1999,Official Report, column 590W.

Police numbers for 1979 and 1987
Force Police numbers as at 31 March 1979 Police numbers as at 31 March 1987
Avon and Somerset 2,825 3,009
Bedfordshire 902 984
Cambridgeshire 1,064 1,142
Cheshire 1,778 1,830
City of London 829 771
Cleveland 1,334 1,462
Police numbers for 1979 and 1987
Force Police numbers as at 31 March 1979 Police numbers as at 31 March 1987
Cumbria 1,056 1,118
Derbyshire 1,563 1,777
Devon and Cornwall 2,660 2,774
Dorset 1,128 1,202
Durham 1,312 1,307
Dyfed-Powys 910 932
Essex 2,461 2,718
Gloucestershire 1,076 1,152
Greater Manchester 6,419 6,780
Gwent 965 973
Hampshire 2,949 3,098
Hertfordshire 1,462 1,579
Humberside 1,849 1,964
Kent 2,724 2,879
Lancashire 3,097 3,134
Leicestershire 1,701 1,712
Lincolnshire 1,171 1,173
Merseyside 4,427 4,598
Metropolitan Police 22,214 26,890
Norfolk 1,223 1,312
Northamptonshire 905 1,047
Northumbria 3,272 3,402
Police numbers for 1979 and 1987
Force Police numbers as at 31 March 1979 Police numbers as at 31 March 1987
North Wales 1,268 1,286
North Yorkshire 1,342 1,353
Nottinghamshire 2,117 2,226
South Wales 2,936 3,100
South Yorkshire 2,546 2,862
Staffordshire 1,978 2,113
Suffolk 1,064 1,166
Surrey 1,440 1,609
Sussex 2,758 2,830
Thames Valley 2,639 3,421
Warwickshire 841 965
West Mercia 1,743 1,929
West Midlands 5,981 6,656
West Yorkshire 4,727 5,142
Wiltshire 997 1,044
Total police force strength 109,653 120,421