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

Police pay analysis by rank—pay scales as at 31st March 2009 The preceding page contains the police officers listed by each rank, within each of the 43 police forces of England & Wales.

This sheet served as a calculation page, enabling the officer counts on page 7 to be multiplied by the basic salary, to provide a total basic salary for the ranks employed by each force. Totalling all of the ranks provided a total basic salary costing for police officers for each force, ultimately producing a grand total of the basic salary costings for the 43 forces of England & Wales (excluding the British Transport Police).

The police pay analysis reports are based solely on basic salary rates (excluding overtime) which may be checked in detail at:-

http://www.police-information.co.uk/policepay.htm and http://www.policeoracle.com/pay_and_conditions/police_pay_scales.html

It can be seen from this extract from the salary tables that officers are paid an annual increment rise depending on length of service. This applies in varying degrees to all ranks.

For the purposes of this report, in order to arrive at a balanced picture, salaries were selected from the 2 year service level at the 1st September 2009 rate for all officers.

It can therefore be seen that the calculations are based on each officer having acquired 2 years service in each rank, which will represent an understatement of the total wage bill for the service. Later in the document, we use a baseline of 5 years service in each respective rank for calculations.

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