Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statistics Scotland, 31 March 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, 31 March 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 Force 834 451 1,018 1,428 2,844 756 8,058 1,202 16,592
Additional Regular Police 5 44 48 37 38 6 115 19 311
Central Service 5 3 10 3 49 6 137 4 217
SCDEA/SPSA 15 14 12 12 59 7 138 13 270
Secondments 13 0 17 5 10 2 0 0 47
Total3 872 512 1,104 1,485 3,000 777 8,447 1,238 17,436

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.

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