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Police: Labour Turnover

Commons · Question 62637 · Tabled 25 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 4 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to model the level of police officer (a) attrition and (b) recruitment required to (i) maintain and (ii) increase overall frontline police numbers in the next three

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 4 Jul 2025

The Home Office publishes data on police officer attrition as part of the Police Workforce Statistics, England and Wales. Attrition varies by force and in the year ending March 2024, 9,080 FTE police officers left the 43 territorial police forces in Engla...