Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) male and (b) female police officers were employed in each of the last five years.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed, broken down by gender, by each Police Force Area in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical publication.

Data on the number of police officers, including a breakdown of gender, as at 31 March each year and going back to March 2007, can be found in the accompanying Open Data Table: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods