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Metropolitan Police

Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of (a) police officers and (b) police civilian staff (i) per Metropolitan police division and (ii) in total at the end of each of the last eight years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [104729]

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Mr. Charles Clarke: The Commissioner of the Metropolitan police informs me that the total number of police officers per Metropolitan police division as at 31 December for each of the last eight years is provided in the tables. Figures may not be strictly comparable year on year as a result of boundary and organisational changes. A comparable breakdown of police civilian staff figures is not available. The figures for civilians in the table refer to Area totals.

Police strengths at the end of December of year shown

	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Kensington and Chelsea Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	563.7
Notting Hill	229	238	245	229	250.6	243.6	230	--
Brompton	--	--	371.83	375.4	391.8	365.5	341.58	--
Chelsea	187	199	--	--	--	--	--	--
Kensington	216	218.1	--	--	--	--	--	--
Westminster
Belgravia	339.8	341.5	324.55	308.15	306.26	308.71	306.3	286.8
West End Central	373	339	328	316	308	309	298	304.6
Charing Cross	419.4	446.3	411.9	398.1	403.7	398.6	395.2	394.38
Marylebone	265.65	267.8	268.9	335.7	332.7	329.1	307.3	292.1
Paddington	--	--	466.2	356.6	350	352	324.2	345.11
Paddington Green	284	282.6	--	--	--	--	--	--
Harrow Road	224	224	--	--	--	--	--	--
Hammersmith and Fulham Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	532.12
Fulham	197	298	217	216.73	225.73	230.76	217.16	--
Hammersmith	344	340.33	328.2	316.4	335.52	311.02	300.82	--
Area sub-total	3,078.85	3,104.63	2,961.58	2,852.08	2,904.31	2,848.29	2,720.56	2,718.81
Camden Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	676.36
Hampstead	249	230	220	211	208.15	213.35	186.5	--
Kentish Town	263	260	269.7	276.86	274	285.46	291.66	--
Holborn	209.7	201.7	214.2	210.9	199.8	197.7	186.9	--
Islington Borough
Holloway	260	272.6	270.6	269.9	255.9	250.5	245.01	226.4
Islington	287	295.5	297.3	292.1	313.7	298.9	284.4	284.2
Harrow Borough	272.2	277.2	272.2	293.8	283.4	289.05	281.45	291
Brent Borough
Brent	240.91	253.7	266.7	258.6	272.6	266.48	257.48	246.01
Kilburn	383	366.4	385.28	359.14	367.26	346.75	336.18	313.88
Barnet Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	680.73
Barnet	306	316.4	323	300.3	285.26	277.26	225.55	--
Colindale	--	--	--	--	--	428.73	427.79	--
Golders Green	213.3	215.6	211.1	208.9	215.15	--	--	--
West Hendon	240	248.6	256.75	243.35	235.65	--	--	--
Ealing Borough
Ealing	338.58	361.23	355.93	363.68	354.28	338.35	312.8	324.77
Southall	281.7	291.78	287.93	296.96	291.19	288.16	281.99	269.9
Haringey Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	511.75
Hornsey	270.6	276.6	284.95	273.6	263.3	261.4	245.4	--
Tottenham	291	285	295	271	271.7	265.1	273.1	--
Hillingdon Borough	453.9	443.98	439.5	437	418.7	398.2	395.5	409.3
Area sub-total	4,559.89	4,596.29	4,650.14	4,567.09	4,510.04	4,405.39	4,231.71	4,234.3
Hackney Borough
Shoreditch and Hackney	333	324	336.68	324.6	326.8	330.4	329.32	313.12
Stoke Newington	278	309	356.5	334.94	349.24	346.24	338.1	325.25
Tower Hamlets Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	539.3
Limehouse	285	305	292	279	267	267.09	259.8	--
Whitechapel	--	--	341.7	334.7	329.4	300.4	301.3	--
Bethnal Green	187	184	--	--	--	--	--	--
Leman Street	197	201	--	--	--	--	--	--
Redbridge Borough
Barkingside	270	279.4	296.4	291.1	292.4	268	260.98	255.88
Ilford	250	257	257.49	254	259.6	228.95	231.65	232.25
Waltham Forest Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	467.81
Chingford	234.4	242.4	243.8	237.3	238.3	238.7	241.9	--
Leyton	227.4	231.4	243.4	226	238.92	224.8	220.2	--
Havering Borough	366	375.01	377.17	363.49	351.05	334.33	326.38	326.54
Barking Borough
Dagenham	286	287	304.6	303.2	299.85	299.8	279.12	276.72
Newham Borough
Forest Gate	285	269.68	306.28	316.68	314.48	303.48	295.48	280.2
Plaistow	285	307.8	316.8	310	311.4	286.88	286.88	290.88
Enfield Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	533.57
Edmonton	258	259.46	270.2	265.38	261.78	268.3	267.68	--
Enfield	274	290	273.4	280.1	292.1	282	277	--
Area sub-total	4,015.8	4,122.15	4,216.42	4,120.49	4,132.32	3,979.37	3,915.79	3,841.52
Southwark Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	851.8
Southwark	283	293.53	289.12	306.08	308.88	289.18	296.87	--
Peckham	294.65	308.25	307.35	316.38	303.78	302.63	296.76	--
Walworth	239	248	275	280.4	265.5	268.7	282.8	--
Lewisham Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	533.57
Catford	280	257.6	260.7	294.8	297.7	290.85	287.9	--
Lewisham	313.6	330.8	337.6	347.8	328.6	319.38	307.56	--
Bromley Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	432.47
Bromley and Orpington	--	--	500.43	490.44	471.44	464.1	442.66	--
Orpington	211.44	217.58	--	--	--	--	--	--
Bromley	262	263	--	--	--	--	--	--
Greenwich Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	626.33
Plumstead	284	271	308.5	336.95	320.35	313.49	303.04	--
Greenwich	261	246.8	264.7	286.36	302.5	298.4	292.45	--
Bexley Borough
Bexley Heath	277.5	273	285	295.5	287.3	282	274.4	281
Croydon Borough
Croydon	285	277	296.5	291.3	297.36	272.84	265.38	246.73
South Norwood	312.6	302.69	327.3	342.58	327.98	327.77	324.34	321.83
Epsom and Ewell	373.9	390	428.9	431.38	405.23	404.5	392.81	387.12
Area sub-total	3,677.69	3,679.25	3,881.1	4,019.97	3,916.62	3,833.84	3,766.97	3,700.95
Heathrow division	441.55	423.94	414.39	396.19	366.99	362.06	340.73	297.23
Lambeth Borough
Brixton	302	309	322.5	316.85	322.65	299.08	290.58	269.58
Streatham	266	262.8	273.9	280.01	272.71	251.3	253.3	242.65
Vauxhall	--	--	406.65	372.95	371.94	366.51	350.11	335.96
Kennington	182	175.1	--	--	--	--	--	--
Clapham	230.5	200.5	--	--	--	--	--	--
Hounslow Borough	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	416.48
Chiswick	190.4	210.7	202.7	206.5	197.2	186.3	171.71	--
Hounslow	261	272.2	263.6	277.7	272.7	270.26	266.3	--
Spelthorne	189.4	208.2	199.2	199.8	198.2	178.4	180.8	155.05
Richmond Borough
Twickenham	298	321.35	297.45	319.85	295.85	283.15	267	279.14
Kingston Borough	375.4	395.7	373.14	393.34	362.24	366.89	329.89	325.89
Merton Borough	291.4	312	354.45	334.85	325.25	292.48	294.83	310.1
Wandsworth Borough
Battersea	222	229.8	298.8	288.8	306.9	268.7	263.4	252
Wandsworth	217	217.6	348.98	349.38	355.38	327.18	312.58	320.03
Tooting	232.6	245.9	--	--	--	--	--	--
Area sub-total	3,699.25	3,784.79	3,755.76	3,736.22	3,648.01	3,452.31	3,321.53	3,204.11
Area total	19,031.48	19,287.11	19,465.00	19,295.85	19,111.30	18,519.20	17,956.56	17,699.69
MPS total	28,229.66	28,045.31	28,070.59	27,719.35	27,420.41	26,960.45	26,523.36	26,164.42

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Civil strengths as at the end of December of year shown

Area	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	Area
	Divisional strength totals by area
1. Central	713.22	752.35	743.2	683.68	618.25	595.65	Central
2. North West	945.55	999.19	1,055.55	999.77	966.72	1,951.18	North
3. North East	1,018.21	1,078.99	1,108.07	1,033.81	950.17	--
4. South East	886.92	1,021.32	1,081.65	985.77	945.56	1,723.23	South
5. South West	999.64	1,106.49	1,139.94	1,037.12	1,010.2	--
Total	4,653.54	4,958.34	5,128.41	4,740.15	4,490.9	4,270.06
MPS Total	14,271.23	14,303.09	13,725.1	12,856.22	11,457.3	10,795.94

Notes:

1. Totals for Area 5 South West (1994 to 1998) and South Area (1999) include Heathrow division.

2. All figures exclude traffic wardens and school crossing patrols.

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