Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers there were in (i) Bedford, (ii) Nightingale, (iii) Tooting, (iv) Graveney, (v) Furzedown, (vi) Wandsworth Common and (vii) Earlsfield ward in the London Borough of Wandsworth in 2010.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), on a biannual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

These data are collected by PFA only, and lower levels of geography, such as London Boroughs are not collected. Data on the number of police officers and Police Community Support Officers in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as at 31 March each year, from 2007 to 2022, on a full-time equivalent (FTE) and headcount basis, can be found in the ‘Workforce Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1093587/open-data-table-police-workforce-270722.ods

While the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of police officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, also broken down by PFA. The latest data as at 31 March 2023 are available here: Police Officer Uplift, quarterly update to March 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The latest data from the ‘Police Officer Uplift’ statistics shows, as at 31 March 2023, across England and Wales, there are 149,572 police officers, the highest number of police officers on record, surpassing the previous peak in March 2010 by 3,542 officers.