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Statistics Release Police Officer Quarterly Strengths Statistics Scotland, 30 September 2008

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Table 1 - Number of Police Officers (Full-time Equivalent) in Scotland 1 by Police Force and Deployment, 30 September 2008

Deployment 3

Central Scotland Police

Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary

Fife Constabulary

Grampian Police

Lothian and Borders Police

Northern Constabulary

Strathclyde Police

Tayside Police

Scotland 2

Police Officers in force

814

461

1,034

1,414

2,524

733

7,508

1,139

15,626

Additional Regular Police

5

38

0

19

29

0

41

14

145

Central Service

1

14

12

10

40

3

112

4

196

SCDEA/ SPSA

27

3

7

27

60

6

163

27

320

Secondments

6

2

10

4

216

0

0

1

239

Total 2

852

518

1,063

1,473

2,869

742

7,824

1,185

16,526

1. All figures are expressed in terms of full-time equivalent ( FTE) police officers, rounded to the nearest whole number.
2. Scotland and force totals may not equal the sum of the parts due to rounding.
3. For defintions of the deployment categories, see Note 2 below.

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