FOI 165722
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 165722
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 8th April 2022. Please find below the response to your request:
- How many school-based police officers (including Safer Schools Officers or personnel bearing other titles that may cover police staff who spend some of their time on a school site) are there currently in your police force?
If possible, please can this be broken down by:
(i) The name of the school
(ii) The number of officers based at the school currently
- Are there plans to introduce or add more in the 2022/2023 academic year, if so, how many?
- Has there been any consultation with any of the listed school-stakeholders (below) in decisions to introduce or add school-based police officers (including Safer Schools Officers or personnel bearing other titles that may cover police staff who spend some of their time on a school site) to any of the schools:
School governors
Parents and carers of school children
School children
Local community groups
If yes, please can you provide details of the consultation and any minutes/reports that were compiled.
Reply
- How many school-based police officers (including Safer Schools Officers or personnel bearing other titles that may cover police staff who spend some of their time on a school site) are there currently in your police force?
If possible, please can this be broken down by:
(i) The name of the school
(ii) The number of officers based at the school currently
Below is a list of the Safer Schools PCSO posts. West Mercia Police are not currently adding to this number and no Officers are being sent to work purely in the schools. The SNT (Safer Neighbourhood Team) officers that work the area the school is in would have oversight of any matters requiring their level of attention.
PCSO Safer Schools C Evesham (Evesham High)
PCSO Safer Schools C Malvern (Chase High)
PCSO Safer Schools C Pershore
PCSO Safer Schools C Worcester (Christopher Whitehead)
PCSO Safer Schools C Worcester (Nunnery Wood)
PCSO Safer Schools C Redditch
PCSO Safer Schools C Redditch
PCSO Safer Schools C Stourport (Stourport High)
PCSO Safer Schools C Shrewsbury Harlescott & Sundorne Schools
PCSO Safer Schools C Wellington
PCSO Safer Schools C Wellington
PCSO Safer Schools C Worcester University
PCSO Safer Schools C Worcester University
We also have 9 PCSO Youth Engagement PCSOs.
- Are there plans to introduce or add more in the 2022/2023 academic year, if so, how many?
No information held
- Has there been any consultation with any of the listed school-stakeholders (below) in decisions to introduce or add school-based police officers (including Safer Schools Officers or personnel bearing other titles that may cover police staff who spend some of their time on a school site) to any of the schools:
No information held