Police Officer staffing levels (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey on behalf of the States of Jersey Police and published on 02 September 2019.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

Please provide the amount of serving States of Jersey Police (SOJP) Police officers at the commencement of Kristina Moore’s time as Home Affairs minister and also that at the end of her term.

Please also include the decline of States Police officer numbers from the year 2000 to date.

Response

The then Deputy (now Senator) Moore was Home Affairs Minister from November 2014 to June 2018. The number of Police Officers as at 1 June 2019 was 191. Officer numbers from 2014 to 2018 are already publicly available through a similar Freedom of Information request which can be viewed at the following link:

Police staffing levels (FOI)

Certain States of Jersey Police Annual Reports provide officer numbers for some years from 2000 to 2013, and they are already publicly available at the following link:

States of Jersey Police Annual Reports

Where the relevant Annual Report does not state the officer numbers, the information is not held.

Article applied

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(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.