Police workforce, England and Wales: 31 March 2024
Statistics on police workforce numbers in the 43 police forces in England and Wales and the British Transport Police.
Applies to England and Wales
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The Neighbourhood Guarantee, which is part of the Safer Streets mission, includes a milestone over this Parliament to place 13,000 additional police personnel into neighbourhood policing roles.
Following the announcement of the Safer Streets mission, the as at 31 March 2024 ‘Functions’ data presented in this publication has been revised and, as such, chapter 7 of the commentary and tables F1, F3, F5, F6 and F7 of the ‘Police Workforce March 2024’ data tables are out of date and should not be used.
An ad-hoc statistical release of National Police Chiefs’ Council management information to provide provisional revisions to the police officer and police community support officer neighbourhood policing figures can be found in the ‘Provisional revision to neighbourhood policing data, at 31 March 2024’.
An update to this publication will be provided in due course.
These statistics cover police officers, police staff, designated officers, police community support officers, special constables and police support volunteers in the 43 police forces in England and Wales and the British Transport Police.
See the ‘Police workforce open data tables’ for historical data.
See the ‘User guide to police workforce statistics’ for further information, including a glossary, conventions used and other background information.
If you have any queries about this release, please email policingstatistics@homeoffice.gov.uk or write to:
Police and Fire Analysis Unit
2nd floor Peel Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
The Home Office responsible statistician is Rosanna Currenti.
Updates to this page
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Updated 'Police workforce, England and Wales: 31 March 2024: data tables' and commentary to make clear that 'Functions' data is now out of date and should not be used. The Home Office undertook a data validation exercise and updated Function data will be published in due course.
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Updated 'Police workforce, England and Wales: 31 March 2024: data tables' - figures on total officers per 100,000 population (column K) in Table H4 have been amended. Previously the population rate was calculated using 2021 Census population estimates and has been updated to use the Office for National Statistics’ 2022 mid-year population estimates for England and Wales.
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First published.