FOI 780/25
REQUEST
- The total number of people working for your force in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
- The number of British nationals working for your force 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
- The number of European Union nationals working for your force 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
- The number of non-European Union nationals working for your force 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 . (people from outside the EU and the UK)
RESPONSE
Question 1
We consulted with our HR department who have provided the below response to your request.
Please note that these figures are headcount (not full time equivalent) and do not include officers and staff seconded out of Force:
|
Officers |
Staff |
Total |
|
|
31st May 2019 |
3013 |
2478 |
5491 |
|
31st May 2020 |
3041 |
2529 |
5570 |
|
31st May 2021 |
3187 |
2571 |
5758 |
|
31st May 2022 |
3258 |
2719 |
5977 |
|
31st May 2023 |
3481 |
2791 |
6272 |
|
31st May 2024 |
3539 |
2838 |
6377 |
|
31st May 2025 |
3516 |
2841 |
6357 |
Questions 2-4
We consulted with both our vetting and HR departments who have advised we do not record staff nationality. We do record place of birth however these are not the always the same. For example, a person born overseas in a military family – we would record place as birth, but they would be classed as UK national, also we do not record if someone born overseas then gets nationalised UK status.
Please note we would not be able to provide information on place of birth as this data is not recorded in an easily retrievable format and would require manual interrogation of all officer and staff records.