Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of staffing levels in homicide and serious crime units within police forces in each year since 2010.
The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the primary function of police officers, as part of the police workforce statistics, published here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales
Data on the primary functions of police officers (including those whose primary roles are in Serious and Organised Crime Units) can be found in Table_F5 of the accompanying data tables, the latest of which are available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/728153/police-workforce-tabs-jul18.ods