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Apr 26 • 7 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
A couple of charts on what has happened to police officer numbers and the overall #policeworkforce.

First, the % change in police officers, counted on a headcount basis, between March 2010 and March 2023 (excl BTP).

Winners and losers.

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Second, the % change to the overall police workforce, again on a headcount basis, between March 2010 and March 2022 (the 2023 figures haven't yet been published).

Many more losers than winners.

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Here are the underlying data.

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The sources for the data:

Police officers and total police workforce as at March 2010, and total police workforce as at March 2022:

Home Office Police Workforce Open Data Tables, 31 March 2022 version assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… via gov.uk/government/sta…

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Police officers as at March 2023:

Home Office, Police officer uplift, England and Wales, quarterly update to March 2023: data tables, Table U1 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… via gov.uk/government/sta…

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A reminder: while austerity was introduced w/out any allowance for the different funding mixes in forces - central govt grant vs council tax precent - #20kuplift allocations were based on the funding formula.

Winners and losers were baked in.

police-foundation.org.uk/2020/02/a-ques…

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It's worth saying that the increase in officer numbers in recent years has been a function of both #20kuplift funding from the Home Office, and also additional recruitment funded by PCCs from council tax precept revenues. #policefinance #policeworkforce

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Apr 27
The Home Office published their quarterly update of crime outcomes data today, and I've been taking my periodic look at rape charge rates.

Here, first, we see that the charge rate for rapes recorded in 2020/21 has now reached 4.0% and continues to rise. #crimestats

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I can provide this kind of analysis because I've been collating an archive of the quarterly updates over the last 2 yrs, something I'm not aware anyone else has done.

Here's a summary of the data.

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We can look at charge rate progression in chart form, comparing where successive years have got to. The dashed lines and hollow markers indicate no refresh of the data published at that point.

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Sep 8, 2022
There's a #policetwitter mindset that believes every untruth about or challenge to policing must be 'robustly' confronted. That can translate into expressions of the worst values in policing, whether present today or echoing from the past, esp from behind a cloak of anonymity.
My feeling is that police leaders could do much more to highlight how *counterproductive* this can be.

"You're not helping. In fact you are being unhelpful. Please stop."
I'd add, however, that police leaders have been conspicuously absent from many public debates about policing, leaving a vacuum.

(I think back to the introduction of spit hoods in London, for eg. It was left to rank and file plus others to explain the issues and necessity.)
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Sep 7, 2022
IOPC update policeconduct.gov.uk/news/update-2-…
Includes the detail that the attempt to stop Mr Kaba's car followed "the activation of an automatic number plate recognition camera which indicated the vehicle was linked to a firearms incident in the previous days"
And that "no non-police issue firearm has been recovered from the vehicle or the scene."
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Mar 10, 2022
This isn't the first time I've seen this issue raised, and it's interesting that the Met's (relatively recently introduced) internal workforce ethnicity data has a (well used) Black British category - and also Black Asian (v few), but not Asian British.

I've heard from a number of officers that the lack of a Black British option in monitoring eg stop and search has caused issues with members of the public feeling their self-identity is not reflected in/respected by police systems.
The framework for ethnicity questions is set by ONS, for the Census, for use across public services, and that may be the proper place for the issue to be explored, in conjunction with eg the Home Office.
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Mar 9, 2022
I wasn't aware until yesterday that #policeworkforce data on police officers in E&W are now published with a detailed breakdown of their ethnicity (18+1 categories).

Here's the full breakdown as at Dec 2021, in numbers and percentages.

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Here's Asian representation - this is the % of police officers in each force.

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Here's Black representation, again by force. Note the importance of police officers with mixed Black/White heritage - and especially Black Caribbean/White heritage - to overall Black representation.

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Mar 8, 2022
Charting changing female representation among police officers in England and Wales from 2007 to 2021.

Up from 23% to 32% nationally. #IWD2022 #policeworkforce

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The same data indexed to 2007.

Derbyshire have made the biggest gains in female representation (up from 22% to 36%), CoLP the lowest (up from 20% to 24%).

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Source: Home Office Police Workforce Open Data Tables, 31 March 2021 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… via gov.uk/government/sta…

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