Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many warranted police officers are occupying police staff roles (a) within Lancashire Police and (b) nationwide as of 2 September 2022.

Information on the number of police officers occupying police staff roles is not held centrally by the Home Office.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size and composition 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)

The data tables accompanying the latest release (as at 31 March 2022) are available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1093761/police-workforce-mar22-tables.ods.

Tables F1 to F8 contain information on the number of police officers, police staff and Police Community Support Officers categorised by their policing function. These functions are categorised into frontline roles, frontline support roles and business support roles as described in Table F4. Table F5 shows, by Police Force Area, the number and proportion of officers carrying out frontline policing roles.

The deployment of officers is an operational decision for Chief Constables.