How many of the police officers recruited since May 2007 have been funded from (a) core police grant, (b) local authority funding and (c) S…

Police authority budgets are comprised of funding from constituent local authorities and police grant from the Scottish Government. It is not possible to separate funding of police officer recruitment between these two funding mechanisms. The Scottish Government pledged to fund the recruitment of 1,000 additional officers over the current Parliamentary term and details of the number of additional officers funded by the Scottish Government, along with those funded by police authorities, are shown in the following table. As police officers are appointed to police forces and their deployment is an operational matter for chief constables, it is not possible to show their deployment by local authority area.
Police Officers Recruited and Trained From May 2007 to October 2009
Police Force
| Funded by Police Authorities
| Funded by the Scottish Government
| Total

Central Scotland Police
| 61
| 39
| 100

Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary
| 43
| 23
| 66

Fife Constabulary
| 66
| 48
| 114

Grampian Police
| 235
| 78
| 313

Lothian and Borders Police
| 363
| 144
| 507

Northern Constabulary
| 121
| 43
| 164

Strathclyde Police
| 1,186
| 366
| 1,552

Tayside Police
| 89
| 60
| 149

Total
| 2,164
| 801
| 2,965