Staffing Levels specifically within Legal

Request details 

I would be grateful if you could provide me with the following information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act please:-
 
1. The current number of police officers in your Force.
 
2. The current number of civilian staff.
 
3. The number of staff in your Legal Department, expressed in FTE.
 
4. The number of qualified lawyers (meaning solicitors, barristers and legal executives) in your Legal Department, expressed in FTE.
 
5. Whether civil claims are conducted in-house by your Legal Department or whether they are outsourced.
 
6. If your civil claims are conducted in-house:
 
     a. please state the total number of FTE employees in your civil claims section.
 
     b. please state the total number of qualified lawyers (meaning solicitors, barristers and legal executives) in your civil claims section, expressed in FTE.

Response

I approached our Human Resources team and Legal Department for assistance with your request who provided the following information.

Question 1

3048

Question 2

2548

Question 3

20.4 FTE

Question 4

10.6 FTE

Question 5

Both

Question 6

1. 7
2. 7

Police forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures for capturing the data. For these reasons this response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with responses you may receive from other police forces.