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Police: Chelmsford

Answer

[holding answer 16 December 2008]: Police strength data are not collected by parliamentary constituency areas. Data are collected at the Basic Command Unit (BCU) level and at the force level. These data are published annually in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin "Police Service Strength, England and Wales", copies of which are available online and in the Library of the House.Data for the Central BCU of Essex police are not collected by police rank and so data for all officers and for PCSOs are given in Table 1.Data for Essex police for the police ranks requested and for PCSOs are given in Table 2.

Table 1: Police officer and PCSO strength for the Basic Command Unit of Essex Central as at 31 March in the years given¹
	2007	2008
Police officers (all ranks)	506	517
Police community support officers	86	100

Table 2: Police officer strength and PCSO strength for Essex police force as at 31 March in the years given¹
	2007	2008
Police officers (all ranks)	3,341	3,385
Police constables	2,618	2,663
Police sergeants	505	499
Police community support officers	388	435
¹ These figures are based on full-time equivalents that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, due to rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. Figures include those officers on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

485 c1082-3W; 244181

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Police Chelmsford

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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