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<p>During the Police Uplift Programme, the Home Office published a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount only) in England and Wales. A monthly breakdown of these data are available, for October 2019 to March 2023, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics</a>.</p><p>More routinely however, the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin is the key measure of the size of the police workforce, These data are collected and published at PFA level, on a bi-annual basis and can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></p><p>These data are a snapshot of the workforce as at 31 March and 30 September of each year only.</p><p>Information on the number of police officers in Dorset as at 31 March each year, from 2007 to 2023, on a full-time equivalent and headcount basis, can be found in the ‘Workforce Open Data Table’ here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ba640bef5371000d7af05f/open-data-table-police-workforce-260723.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ba640bef5371000d7af05f/open-data-table-police-workforce-260723.ods</a>.</p><p>The next release of the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which covers the number of police officers employed as at 30 September 2023, is scheduled for release at 9:30am on Wednesday 24 January 2024.</p> |