Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers were employed as detectives in (a) Humberside and (b) each police force in England between 2010 and 2017.

The Home Office does not centrally hold the information requested.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales. These data are broken down by rank, which includes: Chief officer, Chief superintendent, Superintendent, Chief inspector, Inspector, Sergeant and Constable. Information on the number of officers employed as detectives is not collected.

Data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales