§ Lord Roberts of Llandudnoasked Her Majesty's Government:
Which geographical areas are served by each United Kingdom police authority; and how many people there are in each of those areas. [HL33]
§ The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal)Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 sets out the extent of each police force area for each police authority in England and Wales. The table below sets out the most recent population figures for each police force area taken from the mid-year estimates for 2003 from the Office of National Statistics.
Force ONS mid-year population estimate 2003 Avon and Somerset 1,508,171 Bedfordshire 573,765 Cambridgeshire 729,812 Cheshire 990,323 City of London 8,043 Cleveland 554,546 Cumbria 489,829 Derbyshire 976,212 Devon and Cornwall 1,601,215 Dorset 699,428 Durham 592,369 Dyfed Powys 498,695 Essex 1,629,647 Gloucester 568,452 Greater Manchester 2,530,956 Gwent 555,300 Hampshire 1,797,070 Hertfordshire 1,040,925 Humberside 881,652 Kent 1,599,912 Lancashire 1,429,212 Leicestershire 938,811 Lincolnshire 665,270 Merseyside 1,364,212 Metropolitan Police 7,379,825 Norfolk 810,695 North Wales 670,808 North Yorkshire 759,183 Northamptonshire 642,708 Northumbria 1,392,448 Nottinghamshire 1,029,293 South Wales 1,213,188 South Yorkshire 1,272,609 Staffordshire 1,048,973 Suffolk 678,074 Surrey 1,064,575 Sussex 1,506,187 Thames Valley 2,112,536 Warwickshire 519,301 West Mercia 1,173,231 West Midlands 2,578,387 West Yorkshire 2,095,862 Wiltshire 622,021