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As at 31 March
Police force 2002 2003( 6) 2004( 6) 2005( 6) 2006( 6)

Avon and Somerset

1,611

1,785

2,004

2,005

2,080

Bedfordshire

524

595

668

713

759

Cambridgeshire

733

786

838

832

898

Cheshire

884

1,008

1,149

1,137

1,170

Cleveland

626

694

764

748

697

Cumbria

631

676

705

730

732

Derbyshire

953

1,061

1,131

1,165

1,109

Devon and Cornwall

1,639

1,834

1,926

2,034

2,082

Dorset

741

793

823

881

918

Durham

660

602

600

736

733

Essex

1,571

1,682

1,876

1,968

1,968

Gloucestershire

545

590

642

663

694

Greater Manchester

3,135

3,173

3,452

3,303

3,352

Hampshire

1,597

1,720

1,865

1,965

2,099

Hertfordshire

1,121

1,299

1,408

1,414

1,489

Humberside

816

880

979

1,034

1,097

Kent

1,958

2,095

2,267

2,228

2,292

Lancashire

1,442

1,489

1,683

1,715

1,764

Leicestershire

816

934

1,007

1,033

1,079

Lincolnshire

600

641

657

678

677

London, City of

247

268

285

298

314

Merseyside

1,532

1,752

1,855

2,126

2,207

Metropolitan Police

10,459

11,358

12,595

13,561

13,836

Norfolk

819

924

973

984

1,064

Northamptonshire

742

812

874

973

1,010

Northumbria

1,403

1,457

1,495

1,491

1,665

North Yorkshire

743

723

864

928

1,039

Nottinghamshire

1,087

1,180

1,285

1,318

1,385

South Yorkshire

1,352

1,510

1,583

1,729

1,853

Staffordshire

1,030

1,146

1,255

1,325

1,305

Suffolk

692

713

789

813

853

Surrey

1,043

1,245

1,352

1,472

1,541

Sussex

1,507

1,578

1,811

1,950

1,994

Thames Valley

2,061

2,412

2,620

2,611

2,782

Warwickshire

459

503

525

590

609

West Mercia

1,116

1,233

1,391

1,492

1,563

West Midlands

3,007

3,012

3,100

3,143

3,300

West Yorkshire

2,364

2,538

2,776

3,016

3,183

Wiltshire

649

703

764

811

851

Dyfed-Powys

459

502

523

531

566

Gwent

570

607

629

688

749

North Wales

645

703

849

867

882

South Wales

1,435

1,366

1,453

1,510

1,543

NCS

405

524

603

0

779

NCIS(7)

482

0

1

Total England and Wales

58,909

63,105

68,693

71,209

74,563

(1) Civilian staff have been referred to as police staff since March 2003. Figures exclude traffic wardens, police community support officers and designated officers (s.38) (2) Total strength is based on full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, because of rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between these totals and the totals in other tables. Figures exclude those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity unless otherwise stated. (3 )Boundary changes on 1 April 1996 transferred resources for the policing of the Rhmney Valley from South Wales police to Gwent police. (4 )The National Crime Intelligence Service (NCIS) and the National Crime Squad (NCS) were established and set up as independent bodies by the Police Act 1997 effective as of 1 April 1998. (5 )Boundary changes on 1 April 2000 transferred some resources from the Metropolitan police to Essex, Hertfordshire and Surrey police forces. (6 )Strength figures as at 31 March 2003 onwards include those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Therefore these figures are not comparable with those provided for other years in the table. (7 )NCIS were unable to provide figures as at 31 March 2003 and 31 March 2004.

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