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Written question asked by Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour) on Wednesday, 12 November 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 November 2008. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Thursday, 20 November 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Community Support Officers: Manpower

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers have been stationed in Crosby constituency in each year since 1997.
Answer

The available data for Merseyside Police and the Basic Command Unit (BCU) of Sefton are given in the following table. Police Personnel Statistics are not collected by parliamentary constituency.

Police Community Support Officer Strength¹ (FTE)² as at 31 March 2003 to 31 March 2008³
Merseyside Police Sefton Basic Command Unit
31 March 2003 40 —
31 March 2004 72 —
31 March 20054 170 —
31 March 20064 196 —
31 March 20074, 5 332 57
31 March 20084 407 68
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 exclude those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.
³ Police community support officers were introduced in statute in 2002, therefore data is not available prior to 2002-03.
4 Strength figures as at 31 March 2005 onwards include those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Therefore these figures are not comparable with those provided for other years in the table.
5 2006-07 is the first year that police community support officer strength by Basic Command Unit has been collected centrally.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
483 c711W; 236718
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Staff Police community support officers Crosby
Link
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