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Home Office · police force area: West Midlands

Police officers per 100,000 population: West Midlands

Year ending March 2026

269officers per 100,000 population

Police officers per 100,000 population for West Midlands totalled 269 officers per 100,000 population in the period to Year ending March 2026.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. Table_H4
  3. E23000014 West Midlands
  4. column “Total officers per 100,000 population (FTE)[note 2]”
  5. 269.1759876572686 per period
  6. published 22 July 2026

What this measures

Full-time equivalent police officers per 100,000 residents in each territorial police force area of England and Wales as at 31 March, as calculated by the Home Office.

Officers per head of the daytime or visiting population; the City of London and Metropolitan Police figures use resident populations the Home Office notes are small or heavily commuted into.

Source

Dataset
Police workforce, England and Wales
Release
As at 31 March 2026, published 22 July 2026 · sha256 03a63dea0f8dd2cb…
All values
Police officers per 100,000 population by police force area