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Metropolitan Police

Commons · Question 19280 · Tabled 15 Jul 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 1 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by John Milne

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Metropolitan Police's new frontline policing rotation policy on trends in the levels of early retirement among police offic

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 1 Sep 2026

Police forces are operationally independent and the deployment of officers remains an operational decision. It is for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to decide how to allocate the resources available to the force, including the deployment of police o...