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Police Officer strength statistics

07/09/2010

Scotland's Chief Statistician today published statistics on Police Officer Quarterly Strength which give the number of full-time equivalent police officers employed by the eight Scottish forces.

The key findings are:

• There were 17,424 police officers (full-time equivalent) in Scotland on June 30, 2010
• Police officer numbers have increased by 15 full-time equivalent (FTE) officers (0.1 per cent) in the last quarter, from March 31, 2010, and by 145 (0.8 per cent) in the last year, from June 30, 2009

Official statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice