UK Police Force League Table

Name: UK police force league table
Creator: BlueLineHub
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Compare every England & Wales police force side by side — officers, crime, funding and complaints. Click any column to sort.

Reviewed by the BlueLineHub Editorial Team

Last reviewed: 29 May 2026 · Next review due: 29 November 2026

One place to compare all 43 England & Wales forces. Every figure is measured and links to its full source-backed page. Click a column heading to sort. The crime rate per 1,000 (population-adjusted) is the fair comparison; raw officer counts, recorded-crime volume and total funding all scale with force size.

Force	Officers	Officersper 100k pop	Crime rate ▼per 1,000 (ONS)	Recorded crimelatest month	Funding£ / resident	Complaints2024/25	Complaintsper 1k officers	PEEL
Cleveland Police	1,350	237	119.0	8,592	£212	2,109	1562	View
West Yorkshire Police	6,100	260	110.0	24,418	£179	3,772	618	View
Greater Manchester Police	8,200	286	103.9	—	£200	6,664	813	View
Metropolitan Police Service	34,520	379	101.7	94,515	£252	12,039	349	View
South Yorkshire Police	3,050	216	101.1	15,784	£177	1,406	461	View
West Midlands Police	7,950	269	98.6	28,744	£203	4,130	519	View
Humberside Police	2,100	223	96.1	8,761	£173	1,682	801	View
Avon and Somerset Police	3,200	185	95.8	15,818	£134	2,835	886	View
Gwent Police	1,450	242	94.4	7,131	£97	624	430	View
Merseyside Police	4,050	283	93.1	13,169	£232	2,293	566	View
Northumbria Police	3,700	252	90.6	14,130	£204	3,300	892	View
Durham Constabulary	1,250	195	90.2	7,365	£176	960	768	View
Nottinghamshire Police	2,350	201	84.1	10,966	£153	1,708	727	View
Kent Police	3,900	207	80.7	16,757	£131	3,480	892	View
South Wales Police	3,100	230	80.7	12,739	£100	2,934	946	View
Lancashire Constabulary	3,450	227	79.4	14,579	£167	1,998	579	View
Leicestershire Police	2,200	200	77.4	9,500	£136	1,537	699	View
Derbyshire Constabulary	2,050	193	77.3	9,248	£134	1,801	879	View
North Wales Police	1,550	221	76.0	6,771	£81	568	366	View
Sussex Police	3,150	183	75.2	16,675	£126	2,258	717	View
Cambridgeshire Constabulary	1,750	201	74.1	8,156	£120	1,141	652	View
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary	3,500	171	74.0	15,686	£126	3,752	1072	View
Essex Police	3,750	201	73.8	16,067	£121	3,163	843	View
Staffordshire Police	1,900	168	73.3	9,562	£137	1,811	953	View
Northamptonshire Police	1,500	195	71.5	6,961	£126	1,158	772	View
Cumbria Constabulary	1,200	240	70.8	3,583	£170	1,117	931	View
Bedfordshire Police	1,400	203	69.4	5,873	£130	1,111	794	View
Dyfed-Powys Police	1,250	240	69.2	3,883	£75	893	714	View
Hertfordshire Constabulary	2,350	196	68.7	10,241	£129	1,474	627	View
Gloucestershire Constabulary	1,250	195	68.0	4,365	£122	1,474	1179	View
Lincolnshire Police	1,250	162	67.2	6,872	£111	1,263	1010	View
Cheshire Constabulary	2,200	206	66.9	7,357	£141	1,691	769	View
Devon & Cornwall Police	3,400	191	66.1	13,353	£134	1,354	398	View
Thames Valley Police	4,700	196	64.1	17,551	£127	4,017	855	View
Warwickshire Police	1,100	186	62.4	4,700	£119	942	856	View
Norfolk Constabulary	1,750	190	61.9	6,302	£126	380	217	View
West Mercia Police	2,450	191	60.2	9,474	£124	1,922	784	View
Surrey Police	2,200	182	59.7	7,901	£109	2,648	1204	View
Dorset Police	1,350	173	59.3	5,858	£110	1,325	981	View
Wiltshire Police	1,150	158	55.6	4,572	£114	1,331	1157	View
Suffolk Constabulary	1,350	175	55.4	4,139	£120	320	237	View
North Yorkshire Police	1,650	199	52.4	5,857	£120	1,174	712	View
City of London Police	900	—	—	793	—	570	633	View

These are the 43 territorial forces of England & Wales. Police Scotland and the PSNI are overseen by different inspectorates and complaint bodies and record crime under different systems, so they are not directly comparable on these measures and are not listed here. Population-based columns exclude the City of London (its ~8,000 residents would distort a per-head figure against a weekday population in the hundreds of thousands). “Complaints per 1,000 officers” is a BlueLineHub calculation and differs from the IOPC per-1,000-employees figure. Logging and recording practices vary between forces.

Sources: officers — Home Office workforce statistics; crime rate — ONS Police Force Area data (yr to Dec 2025); recorded crime (2026-08) — data.police.uk (OGL v3.0); funding — Home Office Police Grant 2025-26; complaints — IOPC 2024/25; PEEL — HMICFRS. Full downloadable datasets on crime statistics, funding and complaints.