Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary — Workforce

Name: Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary workforce
Creator: Home Office Police Workforce Statistics
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Headcount and density for Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary. Home Office Police Workforce Statistics, OGL v3.

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Officers

3,500

Police staff

1,800

Total headcount

5,300

Density

259 per 100,000 residents

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary polices a population of 2,050,000 across approximately 1,542 square miles.

Notes

The figures above are the in-force headcount reported by the Home Office at the latest published cut. They include warranted officers (constable through chief constable) and police staff (intelligence analysts, CSIs, custody detention officers, control room operators, back-office roles). Specials and PCSOs are reported separately by some forces; we aggregate from the official table.

Force-by-force comparisons live on /accountability/workforce-by-force.

Source: Home Office Police Workforce Statistics as of 31 March 2025.

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0