Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of police officers employed in Wrexham constituency for frontline duties in each of the last five years.

The Home Office does not collect police workforce information at the requested
level. The deployment of available resources is a matter for chief officers
locally, working with their Police and Crime Commissioner.

At the overall police force area level, according to the definitions set out by
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, North Wales Police plan to have
1428 police officers working in frontline roles by March 2015. This represents
95 % of the total police officer workforce compared to 92%
(1,458 officers) in
March 2010.

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary has made clear there is no simple
link between officer numbers and crime levels. This is supported by the
reduction in crime of more than one fifth under this Government, according to
the independent Crime Survey for England and Wales.