British Transport Police: Greater London

(asked on 24th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officers there were in the British Transport Police in London in each year since 2008.


Answered by
Mike Penning Portrait
Mike Penning
This question was answered on 6th July 2015

The Home Office collects figures on the number of officers in the British Transport Police, but cannot separately identify those who work in London.

The numbers of full time equivalent officers working in BTP included in the table below. These cannot be broken down regionally.

As at:

Number of officers

31 Mar 2008

2,579

31 Mar 2009

2,638

31 Mar 2010

2,677

31 Mar 2011

2,631

31 Mar 2012

2,557

31 Mar 2013

2,652

31 Mar 2014

2,912

30 Sep 2014

2,912

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