Home Office and Police: Resignations
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) workers in her Department submitted their resignation in each of the past five years.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers leaving the police service, including resignations, 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, broken down by reason for leaving, between the years ending 31 March 2007 to 2024 can be found in the ‘Leavers Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/669a917cce1fd0da7b59294f/open-data-table-police-workforce-leavers-240724.ods.
Information for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 is due to be published in Summer 2025.
The number of Home Office staff who have submitted their resignation in the last five years can be found in the table below.
Year | Headcount |
Mar-21 | 614 |
Mar-22 | 1,009 |
Mar-23 | 1,497 |
Mar-24 | 1,451 |
Mar-25 | 1,452 |
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