British Transport Police

(asked on 17th December 2015) - View Source
Questioner
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Paula Sherriff
(Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many police officers from the British Transport Police were deployed in (a) London and (b) the rest of the UK in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.

Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 11th January 2016

The table below sets out the number of officers deployed in each year since 2009-10.


Year

Deployed Officers in B Division (London)

Deployed Officers in the rest of the UK

2009-10

1,518

1,360

2010-11

1,541

1,379

2011-12

1,534

1,364

2012-13

1,541

1,305

2013-14

1,507

1,350

2014-15

1,531

1,359


As at January 2016, the total number of deployed officers both in London and across the rest of the UK is 3046, which is the largest number of officers since the creation of the British Transport Police Authority in 2004.

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