Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) policing staff were employed in each force in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
The Home Office collects and publishes data biannually on the number of police officers and police staff employed by each police force. These data can be found in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.
The latest statistics, representing the picture as at 30 September 2016, can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2016