Police Negotiating Board: annual report 2018 to 2019

Annual report for 2018 to 2019 produced by the Independent Chair of the Police Negotiating Board (PNB).


Annex E

This Annex gives an indication of the size of the workforce for which PNB Scotland has responsibility.

  • The Police Officer Quarterly Strength Statistics (published on 6 August 2019) show that there were 17,259 police officers in Scotland as at 30 June 2019. There were approximately:

13,519.4 – Constables

2,415.5 – Sergeants

830.1 – Inspectors

228 – Chief Inspectors

167 – Superintendents and Chief Superintendents

12 – Officers in the rank of ACC and above

Of the numbers above, around 29.7% are female and 70.3% male.

Contact

Email: PNB.Secretariat@gov.scot

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