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Parking Attendants

Answer

Available data for the numbers of police officers whose primary role is within the traffic function and for the numbers of traffic wardens are given in the following tables. Data on local authority parking attendants and civil enforcement officers are not collected centrally.

Police officers FTE whose main function is 'Traffic'¹, 1996-97 to 2006-07
Full-time equivalent²
	1996-97³	1997-98³	1998-994	1999-20004	2000-014	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Avon and Somerset	—	—	—	—	—	216	222	228	215	148
Bedfordshire	—	—	—	—	—	75	80	80	81	68
Cambridgeshire	—	—	—	—	—	85	99	101	99	96
Cheshire	—	—	—	—	—	194	200	194	85	91
Cleveland	—	—	—	—	—	64	73	2	61	72
Cumbria	—	—	—	—	—	107	110	108	111	114
Derbyshire	—	—	—	—	—	107	121	116	119	110
Devon and Cornwall	—	—	—	—	—	192	198	211	215	225
Dorset	—	—	—	—	—	91	86	82	81	80
Durham	—	—	—	—	—	111	119	108	105	100
Dyfed Powys	—	—	—	—	—	136	105	141	143	136
Essex	—	—	—	—	—	241	242	243	243	231
Gloucestershire	—	—	—	—	—	62	66	67	73	67
Greater Manchester	—	—	—	—	—	406	392	359	342	352
Gwent	—	—	—	—	—	93	95	96	102	95
Hampshire	—	—	—	—	—	248	246	244	240	237
Hertfordshire	—	—	—	—	—	150	151	149	149	145
Humberside	—	—	—	—	—	123	119	225	181	100
Kent	—	—	—	—	—	104	—	122	116	109
Lancashire	—	—	—	—	—	198	187	190	197	184
Leicestershire	—	—	—	—	—	92	95	85	77	72
Lincolnshire	—	—	—	—	—	90	89	96	102	100
London, City of	—	—	—	—	—	24	24	28	24	23
Merseyside	—	—	—	—	—	125	119	115	138	150
Metropolitan Police	—	—	—	—	—	583	592	1029	603	611
Norfolk	—	—	—	—	—	120	121	107	112	110
Northamptonshire	—	—	—	—	—	70	71	65	63	63
Northumbria	—	—	—	—	—	245	253	165	167	172
North Wales	—	—	—	—	—	115	114	76	81	98
North Yorkshire	—	—	—	—	—	151	138	101	97	99
Nottinghamshire	—	—	—	—	—	26	121	133	134	139
South Wales	—	—	—	—	—	243	245	243	243	252
South Yorkshire	—	—	—	—	—	180	127	134	141	143
Staffordshire	—	—	—	—	—	50	49	58	28	35
Suffolk	—	—	—	—	—	68	72	76	80	77
Surrey	—	—	—	—	—	108	110	107	99	87
Sussex	—	—	—	—	—	164	163	163	160	169
Thames Valley	—	—	—	—	—	259	259	245	236	237
Warwickshire	—	—	—	—	—	103	103	93	97	93
West Mercia	—	—	—	—	—	292	115	117	116	129
West Midlands	—	—	—	—	—	384	405	393	401	383
West Yorkshire	—	—	—	—	—	320	314	317	343	324
Wiltshire	—	—	—	—	—	91	96	93	13	89
Total	—	—	7,525	7,238	7,005	6,902	6,706	7,104	6,511	6,412
¹ Staff with multiple responsibilities (or designations) are recorded under their primary role or function. The traffic function Includes staff who are predominantly employed on motorcycles or in patrol vehicles for the policing of traffic and motorway related duties. The does not include officers employed in accident investigation, vehicle examination and radar duties.
² This and other tables contain full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.
³ Data are unavailable for 1996-97 and 1997-98.
4 Data by police force area are not available centrally.

Traffic warden strength¹ (FTE)² by police force as at 31 March 1998 to 31 March 2007
Police force	1998	1999	2000	2001³	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Avon and Somerset	114	115	59	48	44	43	34	0	0	0
Bedfordshire	26	10	9	3	3	2	2	0	0	0
Cambridgeshire	33	38	35	38	36	35	17	0	0	0
Cheshire	35	31	25	20	20	19	15	17	0	0
Cleveland	23	18	13	10	12	7	8	0	0	0
Cumbria	21	16	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Derbyshire	53	50	50	44	50	48	43	25	21	12
Devon and Cornwall	115	113	119	110	101	103	102	96	89	47
Dorset	49	42	41	37	12	0	0	0	0	0
Durham	22	21	22	19	19	15	4	0	0	0
Essex	123	121	102	82	59	38	21	8	7	9
Gloucestershire	38	35	35	30	30	31	21	16	14	9
Greater Manchester	189	160	96	88	87	88	88	90	71	32
Hampshire	65	68	53	53	31	25	23	16	7	6
Hertfordshire	55	44	38	45	42	38	9	0	0	0
Humberside	59	52	53	51	51	48	46	45	38	20
Kent	52	31	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lancashire	110	101	94	87	84	50	17	2	0	0
Leicestershire	75	70	67	65	72	61	51	26	5	1
Lincolnshire	26	22	20	21	21	21	18	20	14	10
London, City of	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merseyside	115	114	106	93	63	52	43	10	5	38
Metropolitan police	1,166	945	817	689	632	687	505	449	411	317
Norfolk	43	40	37	33	34	33	31	28	26	22
Northamptonshire	25	23	16	11	7	7	5	4	2	1
Northumbria	78	70	70	72	71	59	56	51	48	32
North Yorkshire	23	23	19	12	10	0	10	0	6	3
Nottinghamshire	61	65	58	39	30	29	33	12	4	1
South Yorkshire	80	76	62	71	77	68	37	18	0	0
Staffordshire	35	31	24	17	12	10	1	0	0	0
Suffolk	32	33	31	29	29	25	25	20	18	0
Surrey	25	21	16	25	20	17	8	5	3	0
Sussex	132	113	110	98	62	61	67	62	48	48
Thames Valley	103	95	58	45	51	42	36	24	16	8
Warwickshire	12	10	8	9	9	9	8	4	5	3
West Mercia	35	31	30	23	21	15	13	9	10	6
West Midlands	218	192	175	128	78	74	72	66	51	24
West Yorkshire	129	118	116	107	99	98	85	42	26	12
Wiltshire	19	20	15	7	8	7	5	1	0	0
Dyfed Powys	19	15	14	15	12	13	10	10	8	10
Gwent	33	32	30	28	28	27	25	21	22	23
North Wales	16	15	12	12	8	7	5	4	2	1
South Wales	109	108	100	104	100	99	92	82	77	72
Total England and Wales	3,788	3,342	2,855	2,516	2,233	2,108	1,688	1,281	1,053	764
¹ This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items
² Full-time equivalent excludes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.
³ Boundary changes on 1 April 2000 transferred some resources from the Metropolitan police to Essex, Hertfordshire and Surrey police forces.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

214743; 478 c912-6W

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Police Parking attendants Road traffic control

Link

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