Police: English Language
Commons · Question 91275 · Tabled 14 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that police officers demonstrate fluent spoken and written English before being deployed in frontline roles.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 26 Nov 2025
Decisions about police recruitment, including how recruitment and selection processes are run, are a matter for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners and are therefore managed locally by forces. This is done within a national application, as...