- Reference Number: 3320
- Date released: 14 September 2011
Request
1. A list of staff posts that have been disestablished or are
proposed or scheduled to be disestablished during 2011/12 as part
of budgetary savings, stated both as pure headcount and full-time
equivalent if possible. Please highlight where the holder of the
disestablished post has been redeployed to a frontline policing
role (HMIC definition, see point 3). Please provide the most
detailed information permissible under the Data Protection Act,
noting that this request does not ask for identifying personal
details of any staff member.
2. Broken down by each of the staff categories listed at point
3, the number of full-time equivalent staff within the police
force’s establishment as of October 2010 (April 2010 figures will
suffice if October 2010 figures are not available; please specify
if this is the case); and then these figures as of August 2011 (or
the most current figures available; please specify the applicable
date); and then proposed or forecast figures for April 2012 (i.e.
2012/13), April 2013 (i.e. 2013/14), and April 2014 (i.e. 2014/15).
Staff not employed within the staff categories listed at 3 should
be excluded from the data.
3. The staff categories referred to at point 2 are those listed
by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) in its
definition of frontline policing:
HMIC
Demanding Times
- Response
- Neighbourhood
- Community safety/relations
- Probationers (Student Officers)
- Traffic
- Dogs
- Firearms (tactical)
- Mounted
- Air
- Firearms (specialist)
- Marine / Underwater
- Surveillance Unit
- Ports / Special Branch / Protection / Immigration /
Nationality
- Child / Sex/ Domestic / Missing Persons
- Fingerprints / Photographic
- Scenes of Crime
- Technical Support Unit (specialist, not process support)
- Asset Confiscation (specialist, not process support)
- Burglary (specialist, not process support)
- CID (specialist, not process support)
- CID – Specialist Crime Unit (specialist, not process
support)
- Drugs (specialist, not process support)
- Fraud (specialist, not process support)
- Hate Crime (specialist, not process support)
- Vehicle Crime (specialist, not process support)
- Intelligence (specialist, not process support)
- Vice (specialist, not process support)
- Custody
- Control Room / Call Handling (process management, not process
support)
- Enquiry / Station Counters
- Local Commanders
- Police Standards Unit (process management, not process
support)
4. Where the police force does not hold or cannot access the
requested information in the form requested at point 2 (i.e. broken
down by staff categories as at point 3), please provide the
information broken down by the most detailed categorisation
available within the appropriate time limit under section 12 of the
Freedom of Information Act. In this event, please provide figures
across the entire staffing establishment (not just frontline
categories), and then highlight the figures that apply to frontline
posts and categories (please also provide the police force’s
definition of ‘frontline’ for the purposes of responding to this
request).
Clarification: Rec'd 25/08/2011
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify that my request
refers to both police ‘staff’ and police ‘officers’. The categories
at points 3 and 4 of my request remain
.If the police force responds to this request in line with the
categories listed at point 3, it may ignore point 4.
Response
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