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

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An in depth, force by force, independent review of the police officers engaged in non response functions. We remain convinced, from our Freedom of Information work on reducing response numbers, supported by the HMIC force returns, that more effective deployment of resources, again to the front line where it’s needed, would deliver well in excess of the savings forecast from cutting valuable overtime budgets. In fact, delivering these troops back to the front line, would, we advocate, reduce the problem into insignificance.

Police Force

West Midlands Surrey

North Yorkshire Bedfordshire Cleveland

Thames Valley Norfolk

South Yorkshire Sussex Cheshire

Humberside

Nottinghamshire Dorset Kent

Hampshire Gloucestershire

Metropolitan Police West Yorkshire London, City of North Wales Wiltshire

Hertfordshire South Wales

Police

Officers 1

8,748 1,840 1,379 1,269 1,740 4,518 1,698 3,006 3,257 2,233 2,112 2,395 1,516 3,799 3,723 1,357

33,322 5,831 813

1,596 1,209 2,158 3,163

Operational

2

8,178 1,667 883

1,181 1,616 4,503 1,627 2,554 3,058 2,023 2,040 1,801 741

2,971 3,462 1,085

25,301 3,191 772

1,531 779

2,016 2,616

Operational %

93% 91% 64% 93% 93%

100% 96% 85% 94% 91% 97% 75% 49% 78% 93% 80% 76% 55% 95% 96% 64% 93% 83%

Response

3

1,831 432 343 318 457

1,187 500 934

1,057 742 718 816 527

1,347 1,404 545

13,621 2,480 366 729 558

1,036 1,518

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Response %

21% 23% 25% 25% 26% 26% 29% 31% 32% 33% 34% 34% 35% 35% 38% 40%

41% 43% 45% 46% 46% 48% 48%

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HMIC Frontline

Resource %*

52.6%

30.6% 42.8% 40.4% 48.5% 41.2% 43.6% 41.6% 39.3% 37.2% 36.4% 40.1% 41.9% 35.9% 42.2% 46.8%

41.5% 39.0%

47.5% 35.1% 40.0% 44.6%

HMIC Visible Presence

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HMIC

Pos 5

42

1

24 12 39 13 27 16 9 5 4

11 18 3

20 35 15 8

43 38 2

10 30

FOI

Pos 6

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10 11 12 13 14 15 16

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