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Police: Termination of Employment

Asked by Adam JogeeLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 26 July 2024UIN 473

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of police officers who left the service in (a) Staffordshire and (b) England in each of the last five years.

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson

The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officer leavers in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales

Information on the number of police officers leaving the police service, by Police Force Area, between the years ending 31 March 2007 and 2023, can be found in the ‘Leavers Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ba76662059dc000d5d27c0/open-data-table-police-workforce-leavers-260723.ods

The next release of the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which covers the number of police officer leavers in the year ending 31 March 2024, is scheduled for release at 9:30am on Wednesday 24 July 2024.

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