PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Police: Deployment (14 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of warranted police officers that were (a) deployed and (b) unavailable for deployment to frontline roles per police force in the last 12 months.

Asked by:
Nick Timothy (Conservative)

The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number and proportion of police officers available for duty and those in frontline roles as at 31 March each year in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.

Table H1 of the data tables accompanying the publication provides the number and proportion of police officers available for duty, by Police Force Area, as at 31 March 2024. The number of police officers available for duty is calculated by excluding those on long-term absence.

The Home Office also publishes statistics on the functions of police workers, following the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy’s (CIPFA) Police Objective Analysis (POA) framework. Table F1 of the data tables accompanying the publication provides the primary function of police officers by Police Force Area, as at 31 March 2024. Those on long-term absence, which are not available for duty, are included in the ‘Other’ function; however, this group may also contain some officers that are available for duty. Table F5 presents the number and proportion of officers that are in frontline roles, by Police Force Area, as at 31 March 2024. The proportions are calculated excluding officers recorded under the ‘Other’ and ‘National Policing’ functions.

Answered by:
Dame Diana Johnson (Labour)
22 October 2024