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Table 3: Police community support officer (PCSO) strength by English Government office regions and Wales (full-time equivalents)( 1)
	Police community support officers
	Strength as at:			Change in 12 months		Change in 6 months
	September 2005	March 2006	September 2006	September 2005 to September 2006		March 2006 to September 2006
English Government office regions and Wales	fte	fte	fte	No.	%	No.	%
North East	300	295	365	65	21.5	70	23.5
Cleveland	86	100	111	25	29.1	11	11.0
Durham	72	67	90	18	25.6	23	35.1
Northumbria	143	129	164	21	14.9	35	27.3
North West	680	722	863	184	27.0	141	19.6
Cheshire	77	75	77	0	0.3	3	3.4
Cumbria	19	17	27	8	42.0	10	59.0
Greater Manchester	264	251	321	57	21.7	71	28.2
Lancashire	159	184	224	65	41.0	40	21.6
Merseyside	161	196	214	53	33.0	18	9.4
Yorkshire and the Humber	647	673	828	181	28.0	155	23.0
Humberside	20	20	112	92	468.2	92	468.2
North Yorkshire	69	71	85	16	23.6	14	20.2
South Yorkshire	125	121	126	1	1.0	6	4.6
West Yorkshire	433	462	505	72	16.5	43	9.3
East Midlands	390	408	563	173	44.2	154	37.8
Derbyshire	43	42	56	13	30.2	14	33.7
Leicestershire	119	136	155	36	30.1	19	13.8
Lincolnshire	78	78	134	56	71.5	56	72.6
Northamptonshire	38	40	62	24	63.2	22	55.0
Nottinghamshire	112	112	155	44	39.1	43	38.3
West Midlands	450	471	681	231	51.3	210	44.5
Staffordshire	62	70	103	41	66.5	33	47.4
Warwickshire	56	64	61	5	8.9	-3	-4.7
West Mercia	86	85	170	84	97.8	84	98.5
West Midlands	247	252	348	101	40.9	96	38.0
Eastern	562	568	781	219	38.9	213	37.4
Bedfordshire	43	41	47	4	9.3	6	14.7
Cambridgeshire	92	101	125	33	35.8	24	23.2
Essex	193	192	296	103	53.3	104	54.1
Hertfordshire	135	139	165	30	22.3	26	18.5
Norfolk	67	65	102	36	53.2	37	56.6
Suffolk	33	30	46	14	41.5	17	55.8
London	2,067	2,326	2,689	622	30.1	362	15.6
London, City of	14	11	8	-6	-42.9	-3	-27.3
Metropolitan police	2,053	2,315	2,681	628	30.6	365	75.8
South East	567	639	772	204	36.0	132	20.7
Hampshire	23	30	103	80	347.8	73	243.3
Kent	103	97	100	-3	-3.1	3	3.1
Surrey	102	126	161	59	58.2	35	28.0
Sussex	231	257	274	43	18.6	17	6.6
Thames Valley	109	130	134	25	23.1	4	3.1
South West	377	394	591	215	57.0	197	50.1
Avon and Somerset	146	130	182	36	24.4	52	39.7
Devon and Cornwall	75	74	158	84	111.7	85	114.5
Dorset	56	61	72	17	29.7	11	18.0
Gloucestershire	62	72	94	32	51.5	22	30.6
Wiltshire	38	57	85	47	123.7	28	49.1
Wales	282	271	384	101	35.9	113	41.8
Dyfed-Powys	24	26	30	6	25.2	4	14.6
Gwent	81	76	97	16	20.0	21	27.9
North Wales	61	58	76	15	23.8	18	30.2
South Wales	116	111	181	65	55.4	71	63.8
Total of all 43 forces	6,323	6,769	8,517	2,194	34.7	1,748	25.8
British Transport Police	135	200	235	100	74.1	35	17.5
(1 )This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.

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