Establishment Figures - 1666/21

Date Responded 17 December 2021

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

“I am researching police personnel numbers over the passed ten years.

Is it possible to provide these to me for both sworn police constables and uniformed support staff from 2010 to the present?”

You then clarified that by ‘uniformed support staff’ you referred to PCSOs and Detention staff

In Response:

I am able to disclose the located information to you with the caveats noted as follows.

Data compiled from 1 January each year with additional data taken at 1 December 2021 to reflect numbers to date.
Figures reflect Actual FTE

YEAR	PCSO/ Detention	PC
2010	534.95	3248.22
2011	528.75	3213.31
2012	511.62	3098.98
2013	483.32	3013
2014	341.02	2934.12
2015	338.41	2823.34
2016	292.16	2723.46
2017	263.9	2598.18
2018	237.65	2553.3
2019	272.99	2437.59
2020	301.6	2431.24
2021	268.16	2677.89
01.12.2021	313.37	2805.51

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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