Friday 5th March 2010

Dear Mr Bennett,

FOI Reference No: FOI- 20104/14277

Thank you for your request for information received by West Yorkshire Police on 8^th January 2010.

You requested the following information:

1. Please provide the total numbers of officers by rank within your force for 2009

Figures as at 31^st December 2009.

2. How many of those officers were assigned to response duties in 2009

*Please note that the “Response Duties” category includes officers in response teams, neighbourhood policing teams, traffic roles, and dog sections who would provide the initial response to calls from the public.

**Officers in the “Operational” category carry out roles which prevent and investigate crimes and incidents but they do not usually provide an initial response to calls from the public. This category includes divisional crime investigation officers, intelligence gathering officers, specialist crime teams, counter terrorist officers, firearms officers and call handling officers.

3. What are the non response administerial departments within your force?

4. How many police officers are assigned to each of these departments, by rank?

Please note that there are no police officers working in the Information Technology Department, the Force Solicitors Office or the Media and Marketing Department.

CLARIFICATION RECEIVED 25.1.10 ******

By "Response Duty" we mean "Operational" officers assigned to respond to calls from the public presumably those on shift duties who would attend calls from the public such as beat officers, police vehicle drivers dog officers traffic etc.(Inspector Sergeant, PC). Operational Support officers to be listed separately by role and rank if possible. By "Administerial" we mean those officers specifically assigned to non operational roles that are office based such as audit police administrative roles that by virtue of the job mean that they work in an office for their tour as opposed to responding to public calls." We understand you may call this "Organisational & Organisational Support". Again officers to be listed separately by role and rank if possible.

COMPLAINT RIGHTS

If you are not satisfied with how this request has been handled or with the information provided, please read the advice notice attached to this letter. If you do wish to take up your right of complaint, please remember to quote the reference number above in any future correspondence.

Yours sincerely

Laura Mudd

Freedom of Information Project Officer

pp Steven Harding

Head of Information Management

The West Yorkshire Police in complying with their statutory duty under sections 1 and 11 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to release the enclosed information will not breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. However, the rights of the copyright owner of the enclosed information will continue to be protected by law. Applications for the copyright owner's written permission to reproduce any part of the attached information should be addressed to The Force Solicitor, West Yorkshire Police Headquarters, PO Box 9, Laburnum Road, Wakefield WF1 3QP.