{"metric":"police_officers_by_force_hist","title":"Police officers by police force area, 2007 to date","topic":"crime","unit":"officers (FTE)","measure_type":"stock","geography":"K04000001","comparison_method":"year_on_year","source":{"publisher":"Home Office","publication":"Police workforce open data table, England and Wales (Home Office)","landing_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-open-data-tables"},"definition":"Full-time equivalent police officers as at 31 March in each of the 43 territorial police force areas of England and Wales, every year from 2007, from the Home Office open data table. Each figure is the sum of the published FTE rows for police officers of every rank and sex in that force and year, and says so.","does_not_measure":"British Transport Police or central service secondments (listed without a force code and skipped), officers available for duty, or headcount - these are full-time equivalents.","links":{"page":"/crime/police-officers-by-force-hist","series":"/api/metrics/police_officers_by_force_hist/series","vintages":"/api/metrics/police_officers_by_force_hist/vintages"}}