19654 - Police officers in back office jobs
Police officers in back office jobs as at March 31st 2010. We released the following information on 9 September 2011. Information regarding…
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Police officers in back office jobs as at March 31st 2010.
We released the following information on 9 September 2011.
Information regarding police officers in back office jobs is based around statistical returns provided by each police force as part of the Home Office’s annual data requirement (ADR). The figures provided for the workforce data are broken down by a number of functions.
In March 2011, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary’s (HMIC) report “Demanding Times”, set out their analysis of how the policing workforce divides up into “frontline”, “middle office” and “back office” roles and how the functions reported in the statistical returns split between these three categories.
Page 19 of HMIC’s report (http://www.hmic.gov.uk/publication/demanding-times/) sets out the list of functions reported in the statistical return and HMIC’s allocation of those functions to the front, middle or back roles.
Applying HMIC’s analysis to the workforce data for March 2010 (as was used by HMIC in their report), there were 7,297 police officers working in “back office‟ roles.
A force-by-force breakdown of the total number of back office roles reported by forces to the Home Office is listed below.
Number of officers reported (in ADR601) working in functions designated as ‘back office’ by HMIC (Full Time Equivalent; rounded) as at March 31st 2010.
**Force
**
**Number of officers
**
Avon & Somerset
145
Bedfordshire
87
Cambridgeshire
62
Cheshire
149
Cleveland
74
Cumbria
68
Derbyshire
40
Devon & Cornwall
239
Dorset
107
Durham
111
Dyfed-Powys
55
Essex
266
Gloucestershire
67
Greater Manchester
580
Gwent
22
Hampshire
289
Hertfordshire
105
Humberside
103
Kent
239
Lancashire
256
Leicestershire
107
Lincolnshire
66
London, City of
47
Merseyside
144
Metropolitan Police
1346
Norfolk
99
North Wales
60
North Yorkshire
24
Northamptonshire
104
Northumbria
209
Nottinghamshire
47
South Wales
186
South Yorkshire
153
Staffordshire
131
Suffolk
46
Surrey
139
Sussex
195
Thames Valley
272
Warwickshire
58
West Mercia
70
West Midlands
355
West Yorkshire
297
Wiltshire
73
**Total
**
**7297
**