The FT don't understand statistics

Per today's FT (scroll down to bottom of article).

"Mrs Spence said Cambridgeshire had 183 officers per 1,000 of the local population compared with the national average of 266"

For crying out loud, how can they print this stuff?

Don't they mean 266 per 100,000 of population? 266 police officers per 1,000 population would mean 1-in-4 of us is a copper!