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

SUMMARY OBSERVATIONS - Non Response Officers : Freedom Of Information Requests vs HMIC Returns

Police Force

Police Officers 1

Avon & Somerset Northamptonshire Greater Manchester Merseyside Northumbria Warwickshire Cambridgeshire Staffordshire

Devon & Cornwall Derbyshire Suffolk Durham

Lincolnshire Gwent

Cumbria

Dyfed-Powys Leicestershire Lancashire Essex

West Mercia

3,331 1,345 8,299 4,494 4,102 989

1,458 2,211 3,546 2,065 1,291 1,551 1,202 1,438 1,262 1,197 2,362 3,753 3,565 2,426

Operational

2

2,994 1,155 7,279 4,314 3,942 925

1,385 1,977 3,369 1,201 1,256 1,464 1,169 1,395 1,105 1,161 1,298 3,490 3,387 2,301

Total of 43 forces 144,569 122,164

Operational %

90% 86% 88% 96% 96% 94% 95% 89% 95% 58% 97% 94% 97% 97% 88% 97% 55% 93% 95% 95%

Response

3

1,602 647

4,067 2,202 2,010 491 729

1,106 1,781 1,105 696 838 649 777 681 646

1,298 2,064 1,961 1,366

85% 60,181

Response %

48% 48% 49% 49% 49% 50% 50% 50% 50% 54% 54% 54% 54% 54% 54% 54% 55% 55% 55% 56%

42%

 see key below





                  

HMIC Frontline

Resource %*

42.7%

38.2% 41.8% 42.4% 45.7% 42.9% 37.9% 43.6% 48.8% 41.2% 47.2% 42.6% 43.1% 44.0% 45.2% 51.2% 47.0% 45.1% 45.4% 42.1%

42.5%

Key & Notes

1. Denotes the FTE or Full Time Equivalent numbers (if provided) by each force in their Freedom of Information response 2. Numbers of FTE officers within the category "Operational" as provided by the force 3. Response numbers when either directly provided by force as s30 Home Office Function guide (Car/Beat/Foot patrol) or equal to % ofhighest comparable force

 Indicates a force that has declared a Foot/Beat/Car Response number that fits the Home Office Section 30 definition



Force declared a response including a large proportion of non response operational functions and was considered overstated

*HMIC Frontline Figures Direct transposition from http://www.hmic.gov.uk/MyPolice (Vlaue for money) then each force frontline % inserted (See HMCI note below). HMIC Explanatory Note of what is included in "Frontline" count. Value for money: Staffing and costs - Frontline and investigative staff This section contains the percentage of frontline police as a proportion of the local police force. Frontline police are defined as police officers, police community support officers and police staff in the following ADR601 categories; Air, Community Safety/Relations, Dogs, Firearms - tactical, Response, Marine, Mounted, Traffic, Traffic Wardens, Underwater & Neighbourhoods.

It also contains the percentage of investigative police as a proportion of the local police force. Investigative staff are defined as police officers, police community support officers and police staff in the following ADR601 categories; Burglary, Child/Sex/Domestic, CID, CID specialist crime unit, Drugs, Fraud, Hate Crime & HOLMES unit. Local police excludes staff that are allocated to national functions or who are unavailable for duty and are defined as police officers, police

community support officers and police staff in the following ADR601 categories; Ports, Special Branch/Protection/Immigration/Nationality, Probationers Year 1 and Other.

Data source: Home Office Annual Data Return about staffing by function (ADR601 return). Age of data: Financial year 2008/09 as of 31/3/09. 4. HMIC Visible Presence Rating

http://www.hmic.gov.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/PRC/PRC_ALF_20100311.pdf

5. HMIC Position denotes the ranking position in terms of the response % expressed as a percentage of the total force FTE number 6. FOI Position denotes the ranking position of the response % as reflected by the individual force FOI returns (Green highlights within 5 ranking places of HMIC).

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HMIC Visible Presence Rating 4

Good Fair

Good Fair

Good Fair Fair Fair Fair

Good Good Fair Fair Fair

Good Fair

Good Good Good Fair

Good

HMIC Pos 5

23 7

17 21 34 25 6

28 40 14 37 22 26 29 32 41 36 31 33 19

FOI

Pos 6

24

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 39 38 35 37 40 42 41 43

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