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The Home Office has today confirmed the officer recruitment targets for every police force in England and Wales for the first year of the unprecedented drive to increase their ranks by 20,000 over the next 3 years.

Strengthening police numbers is a priority for the government, which is providing 拢750 million to support forces to recruit up to 6,000 additional officers onto our streets by the end of 2020 to 2021, the first stage in this new uplift. This is thanks to the additional funding announced by the Chancellor in the Spending Review.

The Home Secretary set out her vision for policing yesterday (8th October) when she chaired the second meeting of the National Policing Board, involving representatives of frontline officers and police leaders.

Home Secretary Priti Patel said:

The public are clear they want to see more police officers on their streets, whether they live in the city or the countryside.

This is the people鈥檚 priority and it is exactly what the government is delivering.

Every single police force in England and Wales will be able to recruit additional officers this year to help keep all of our communities safer.

All officers recruited as part of the 20,000 uplift will be additional to those hired to fill existing vacancies. They are also on top of the extra officers already being recruited because of the 拢1 billion increase in police funding for 2019 to 2020, which includes money from council tax and for serious violence.

Government funding for recruitment in 2020 to 2021 will cover all associated costs, including training and kit.

The National Policing Board, set up by the Prime Minister in July to drive progress in recruitment and other major policing issues, yesterday heard that all forces are accelerating their recruitment and that the website for the campaign, 鈥楤e a Force For All鈥�, has been visited more than 215,000 times.

The Police Federation and the Police Superintendents鈥� Association attended the board for the first time, honouring the Home Secretary鈥檚 commitment for front-line officers and their senior managers to be represented.

John Apter, National Chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales said:

Yesterday鈥檚 meeting was constructive and it is important that we, as the largest police staff association, were at the table to ensure our members were represented.

Investment in policing is long overdue and for the first time we now have the actual number of officers each local force will increase by in the next year.

These figures have been based on the current funding formula models and while this method is not perfect, I accept it is the only solution available to deliver the numbers quickly in year one.

We now need to ensure that the formula is revisited for future years to ensure a fairer allocation of officers across all forces, but this is certainly a positive start and will provide a much-needed boost to my members and the communities they serve.

Today鈥檚 recruitment targets announcement follows the establishment of a 拢25 million Safer Streets Fund.

Police and crime commissioners can bid for funding to prevent burglary and theft in crime hotspots through initiatives that could include interventions to improve home security, such as installing better locks and gating alleyways, and making streets better lit at night, for example.

It also follows the Home Office extending a pilot to make it simpler for forces to use section 60 serious violence stop and search powers and announcing a 拢20 million package of actions cracking down on county lines drug gangs.

The Home Office has also announced 拢10 million of funding to increase the number of officers carrying Taser to keep themselves and the public safe and confirmed plans for a police covenant that will focus on the physical protection of officers, their health and wellbeing and support for their families.

Police force area	First year recruitment target
Avon & Somerset	137
Bedfordshire	54
Cambridgeshire	62
Cheshire	90
Cleveland	72
Cumbria	51
Derbyshire	85
Devon & Cornwall	141
Dorset	50
Durham	68
Dyfed-Powys	42
Essex	135
Gloucestershire	46
Greater Manchester	347
Gwent	62
Hampshire	156
Hertfordshire	91
Humberside	97
Kent	147
Lancashire	153
Leicestershire	89
Lincolnshire	50
London, City of	44
Merseyside	200
Metropolitan Police	1,369
Norfolk	67
North Wales	62
North Yorkshire	58
Northamptonshire	57
Northumbria	185
Nottinghamshire	107
South Wales	136
South Yorkshire	151
Staffordshire	90
Suffolk	54
Surrey	78
Sussex	129
Thames Valley	183
Warwickshire	41
West Mercia	93
West Midlands	366
West Yorkshire	256
Wiltshire	49
England and Wales total	6,000