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Northern Ireland Office

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Mr. William Ross: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will indicate for each month since 1 January 1999 (a) the number of RUC officers in post at each rank, (b) the number who retired at each rank in each month and (c) his projection of (a) and (b) until the end of June. [157885] Mr. Ingram: The tables show (a) the number of RUC officers in post at each rank for each month since 1 January 1999 and projected figures until the end of June 2001 and (b) the number of RUC officers who retired at each rank in each month since 1 January 1999 and projected figures until the end of June 2001. Table A: Actual strength breakdown by rank _________________________________________________________________________________________________. CC DCC ACC Ch Supt Supt Ch Insp Insp Sergt Con Total R Con FT R Con PT 31 December 1 1 8 39 120 169 482 1,399 6,237 8,456 2,936 1,238 1998 31 January 1 1 8 39 121 168 486 1,392 6,315 8,531 2,884 1,230 1999 28 February 1 1 8 39 122 168 490 1,401 6,290 8,520 2,874 1,226 1999 31 March 1 1 8 39 121 168 489 1,398 6,271 8,496 2,862 1,217 1999 30 April 1 1 8 39 121 167 489 1,398 6,247 8,471 2,858 1,212 1999 31 May 1999 1 1 8 39 121 167 487 1,397 6,234 8,455 2,850 1,209 30 June 1999 1 1 8 40 121 167 491 1,407 6,254 8,490 2,823 1,204 31 July 1999 1 1 8 40 121 168 490 1,408 6,242 8,479 2,813 1,200 31 August 1 1 8 39 121 168 489 1,405 6,282 8,514 2,775 1,194 1999 30 September 1 1 8 39 120 171 495 1,398 6,268 8,501 2,762 1,188 1999 31 October 1 1 8 39 120 169 499 1,406 6,245 8,488 2,753 1,181 1999 30 November 1 1 8 39 119 168 499 1,395 6,225 8,455 2,727 1,176 1999 31 December 1 1 8 40 119 167 499 1,396 6,214 8,445 2,719 1,174 1999 31 January 1 1 8 39 120 168 496 1,395 6,195 8,423 2,708 1,169 2000 29 February 1 1 8 39 121 172 495 1,394 6,182 8,413 2,698 1,157 2000 31 March 1 1 8 39 123 170 498 1,390 6,163 8,393 2,688 1,152 2000 30 April 1 1 8 39 123 171 499 1,396 6,177 8,415 2,668 1,145 2000 31 May 2000 1 1 8 39 123 170 498 1,394 6,159 8,393 2,654 1,140 30 June 2000 1 1 8 39 123 169 498 1,397 6,138 8,374 2,643 1,137 31 July 2000 1 1 8 39 122 168 498 1,400 6,115 8,352 2,623 1,131 31 August 1 1 8 39 121 168 498 1,397 6,104 8,337 2,606 1,121 2000 30 September 1 1 8 40 122 168 494 1,394 6,090 8,318 2,593 1,118 2000 31 October 1 1 8 40 122 168 496 1,389 6,078 8,303 2,579 1,112 2000 30 November 1 1 7 40 121 168 492 1,378 6,037 8,245 2,567 1,106 2000 31 December 1 1 7 40 122 169 493 1,382 6,053 8,268 2,555 1,097 2000 31 January 1 1 6 33 107 162 456 1,334 5,938 8,038 2,530 1,089 2001 28 February 1 1 6 36 93 157 442 1,299 5,878 7,913 2,514 1,083 2001 31 March 1 1 4 33 91 150 433 1,278 5,819 7,810 2,496 1,073 2001 30 April 1 1 3 39 72 135 412 1,211 5,632 7,506 2,461 1,071 2001 30 May 2001 1 1 3 38 68 130 400 1,187 5,586 7,414 2,434 1,071 30 June 2001 1 1 3 37 67 130 397 1,174 5,553 7,363 2,427 1,071 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: Actual strength does not include police personnel on secondment. Table B: Number of leavers in each rank by month _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year/date Acc Ch Supt Supt Ch Insp Insp Sergt Con S/T R Con FT R Con PT Grand Aux/Con total 1999 January -- -- -- 1 -- 5 9 1 52 6 74 February -- -- -- -- 1 2 7 -- 10 4 24 March -- 1 1 -- 2 3 17 -- 12 10 46 April -- -- 1 -- 1 5 12 -- 4 4 27 May -- -- 1 -- 1 4 9 -- 11 4 30 June -- -- 1 -- 1 2 16 1 26 5 52 July -- -- -- -- -- 2 9 -- 10 3 24 August -- 1 -- 1 -- 4 13 -- 38 7 64 September -- -- -- -- -- 5 10 -- 12 6 33 October -- -- -- -- -- 1 9 -- 9 8 27 November -- -- 1 1 -- 3 10 -- 27 4 46 December -- -- -- -- -- 5 12 -- 9 6 32 2000 January -- 1 -- -- -- 3 12 -- 11 6 33 February -- -- -- -- -- 3 7 -- 9 5 24 March -- -- -- -- -- 3 18 -- 15 10 46 April -- -- -- -- -- 3 14 1 20 9 47 May -- -- -- 2 1 6 14 1 12 1 37 June -- -- -- -- 3 4 11 1 12 5 36 July -- 1 -- 1 -- -- 18 -- 20 7 47 August -- -- 1 -- -- 2 15 -- 15 7 40 September -- -- -- -- 2 3 11 -- 15 2 33 October -- -- -- -- -- -- 9 -- 12 7 28 November 1 -- 1 -- 2 2 17 -- 13 7 43 December -- -- -- -- 1 2 10 -- 15 12 40 2001 January -- 7 16 9 35 58 105 -- 22 9 261 February -- 5 7 8 19 28 56 1 16 4 144 March 2 6 4 3 10 19 56 2 20 5 127 April 1 5 12 11 22 72 178 -- 35 2 338 May -- 1 4 5 15 27 65 -- 27 -- 144 June -- 1 1 1 3 13 33 -- 7 -- 59 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: Leavers include all cessation reasons eg medical retirement, voluntary early retirement, resigned etc., however the figures for April, May and June 2001 are projections based on known severance figures and do not take account of normal and medical wastage not yet notified.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

157885; 367 c8W;367 c8-9W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Northern Ireland Police Retirement Royal Ulster Constabulary

Contains statistics

Yes

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