Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statistics Scotland, 30 June 2012

Statistics on numbers of police officers employed by Scottish police forces. Figures broken down by police force and deployment.


Table 1: Number of Police Officers (FTE1) in Scotland by Police Force and Deployment, 30 June 2012

Deployment2 Central Scotland Police Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary Fife Constabulary Grampian Police Lothian and Borders Police Northern Constabulary Strathclyde Police Tayside Police Scotland3
Police Officers in Force4 833 493 1,064 1,462 2,855 755 8,097 1,224 16,784
Central Service 5 5 11 6 51 6 193 5 282
SCDEA/SPSA 15 14 13 12 56 7 134 11 262
Secondments 18 0 17 0 8 2 0 1 46
Total3 871 512 1,105 1,480 2,970 770 8,424 1,241 17,373

1. All figures expressed in terms of full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers, rounded to the nearest whole number.
2. Deployment categories are defined in Note 4.
3. Scotland and force totals may not equal the sum of their parts due to rounding.
4. As of the September 2012 release (i.e. the figures to end June 2012), the Police Officers in Force deployment category now includes the Additional Regular Police deployment category used in previous publications in this series (see Note 5).

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