Too many police chiefs? - A review of police strength and costs in England & Wales 2010

TOTAL HMIC OFFICER & POLICE STAFF SALARIES—INCLUDING OVERTIME

The table on the previous page contains data taken straight from the HMIC website individual force profiles. On the financial pages of each profile, there are details of officer, staff and PCSO numbers and their related costings. In addition, there are details of non staffing costs enabling us to examine the force and service expenditure in greater detail.

This extract from the profile of the Metropolitan Police shows the population the force is responsible for, the cost of police officers in millions, the cost of police staff, PCSO’s and non staff costs as a total. Later in the report, we look at the non staff costs in greater detail, which are also itemised within each force profile.

By extrapolating the data within each of the force tables, we were able to arrive at the report on the preceding page. We were then able to produce the Officer to staff and officer to PCSO cost ratios. The reader may recall that in numerical terms, the police officer to staff ration was almost 2:1 and the officer to PCSO ratio almost 9:1.

In financial terms, the cost of police officers is almost three time that of police staff and almost 16 times that of PCSO’s. From similar profiles we were also able to capture the overtime expenditure for police officers and police staff for all forces.

TOTAL STAFFING COST SUMMARY

Cost Excluding Overtime

Overtime

Cost Including Overtime

Police Costs

Some highlights from the report findings :- Police Staff Costs

7,310,000,000

78% of Total

320,000,000

84% of Total

7,630,000,000

70% of Total

2,667,800,000

22% of Total

63,200,000

16% of Total

2,731,000,000

25% of Total

35

Included In Police Staff Overtime

484,000,000

5% of Total

PCSO Costs

Total Staffing Cost

9,977,800,000 383,200,000

10,845,000,000

100%

Chapter 4 Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100  |  Page 101  |  Page 102  |  Page 103  |  Page 104  |  Page 105  |  Page 106  |  Page 107  |  Page 108  |  Page 109  |  Page 110  |  Page 111