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Home Office

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David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average salary of (a) a newly trained police constable and (b) a community support officer is, broken down by police force. [210019] Mr. Charles Clarke: Average salary information is not available. The table shows the salary of a police constable on completion of initial training and the relevant regional allowance, and community support officers' salaries and allowances, as provided by forces for funding purposes for community support officers to be recruited January to March 2005. The pay scales for police constables range from £19,803 for a newly recruited officer, rising to £31,092 for an officer with 11 year's service. Additionally, a constable who has served at the top of the pay scale for one year has access to a competence-related threshold payment of £1,032 per year. There is no national pay scale for community support officers. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Constable CSO Forces Basic pay Allowances Basic Allowance Avon and Somerset 22,107 -- 15,732 3,775 Bedfordshire 22,107 1,000 16,573 3,943 Cambridgeshire 22,107 -- 14,612 3,507 Cheshire 22,107 -- 18,510 5,535 City of London 24,045 4,338 20,889 6,343 Cleveland 22,107 -- 14,424 4,352 Cumbria 22,107 -- 16,150 3,895 Derbyshire 22,107 -- 14,424 4,217 Devon and Cornwall 22,107 -- 16,149 2,021 Dorset 22,107 -- 15,818 2,867 Durham 22,107 -- 14,424 3,051 Dyfed-Powys 22,107 -- 17,750 3,994 Essex 22,107 2,000 15,731 4,180 Gloucestershire 22,107 -- 15,732 4,248 Greater Manchester 22,107 -- 16,287 3,632 Gwent 22,107 -- 15,731 5,506 Hampshire 22,107 1,000 18,842 3,203 Hertfordshire 22,107 2,000 20,410 2,752 Humberside1 22,107 -- 17,100 -- Kent2 22,107 2,000 19,487 534 Lancashire 22,107 -- 14,748 3,540 Leicestershire 22,107 -- 15,732 3,706 Lincolnshire 22,107 -- 12,668 2,000 Merseyside 22,107 -- 14,424 2,740 Metropolitan 24,045 4,338 18,495 4,696 Norfolk 22,107 -- 15,731 3,146 Northamptonshire 22,107 -- 17,973 4,943 Northumbria 22,107 -- 15,731 3,539 North Wales 22,107 -- 15,813 4,581 North Yorkshire 22,107 -- 17,746 4,710 Nottinghamshire 22,107 -- 16,288 4,317 South Wales 22,107 -- 17,252 5,037 South Yorkshire 22,107 -- 16,836 2,528 Staffordshire 22,107 -- 14,004 4,201 Suffolk 22,107 -- 16,435 4,536 Surrey 22,107 2,000 17,958 1,000 Sussex 22,107 1,000 15,650 3,612 Thames Valley 22,107 2,000 17,220 4,268 Warwickshire 22,107 -- 15,731 4,168 West Mercia 22,107 -- 14,090 3,750 West Midlands 22,107 -- 18,500 -- West Yorkshire 22,107 -- 15,035 5,101 Wiltshire 22,107 -- 16,476 2,306 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Shift allowance is included in basic salary. 2 This figure is when the higher of one of two Kent location allowances is paid, the salary plus allowance figure when the lower location allowance is paid is £165 less.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1403-4W;432 c1399-400W; 210019

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Police Pay Police community support officers

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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