Paula Sherriff – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paula Sherriff on 2015-12-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many police officers from the British Transport Police were deployed in (a) London and (b) the rest of the UK in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
Claire Perry
The table below sets out the number of officers deployed in each year since 2009-10.
|
Year |
Deployed Officers in B Division (London) |
Deployed Officers in the rest of the UK |
|
2009-10 |
1,518 |
1,360 |
|
2010-11 |
1,541 |
1,379 |
|
2011-12 |
1,534 |
1,364 |
|
2012-13 |
1,541 |
1,305 |
|
2013-14 |
1,507 |
1,350 |
|
2014-15 |
1,531 |
1,359 |
As at January 2016, the total number of deployed officers both in London and across the rest of the UK is 3046, which is the largest number of officers since the creation of the British Transport Police Authority in 2004.
