Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent neighbourhood support officers have been employed by Cumbria Constabulary in each of the last 10 years.

The table provided contains the number of full time equivalent (FTE) police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) in Cumbria Police Force Area (PFA) who were predominantly employed in neighbourhood policing roles in each year from 2011 to 2015.

Data for years before 2011 are not available on a comparable basis, due to changes in the way the force records these functions.As HMIC has made clear, there is no simple link between officer numbers and crime levels, between numbers and the visibility of police in the community, or between numbers and the quality of service provided.