Police

(asked on 15th July 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the police to population ratio is for (a) police and (b) police community support officers (i) nationally and (ii) in York.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 20th July 2022

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

These data are collected by Police Force Area only, and lower levels of geography, such as Parliamentary Constituencies or Metropolitan Boroughs are not collected.

Table H4 of the data tables accompanying the latest publication, shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) police officers as at 31 March 2021 per 100,000 population both nationally and at a Police Force Area level. The data tables are available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1060642/police-workforce-mar21-tables-second-edition.ods.ods

As at 31 March 2021, there are 179 police officers per 100,000 population in North Yorkshire Police, and 227 in England and Wales.

Equivalently, as at 31 March 2021, there are 29 Police Community Support Officers per 100,000 population in North Yorkshire Police, and 16 in England and Wales.

The rate of police officers and PCSOs per 100,000 population has been calculated using the 2020 mid-year population estimates published by the Office for National Statistics at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/annualmidyearpopulationestimates/mid2020

The next release of the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which will cover the situation as at 31 March 2022, is scheduled for release at 9.30am on Wednesday 27th July.

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