§ Miss McIntoshTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many serving police officers there were in the North Yorkshire police force on(a) 1 May 1997, (b) 1 May 1999 and (c) 1 January 2001. [145601]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeInformation about police numbers is collected twice a year on 31 March and 30 September. The table therefore sets out police numbers for 31 March 1997 and 1999 and for 30 September 2000.
North Yorkshire Police Year Number of officers 31 March 1997 1,338 31 March 1999 1,337 30 September 2000 1,293 With funding from the crime fighting fund, North Yorkshire police will be able to recruit 68 police officers over three years from 2000–01 to 2002–03, over an above the number they had otherwise planned to recruit in that period.