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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many officers (a) were recruited to and (b) retired, resigned or were dismissed from each police force and in total between (i) April and September 1999 and (ii) October and March 2000. [148013] Mr. Charles Clarke: [holding answer 30 January 2001]: The information in the table sets out the number of officers who were recruited, retired or resigned for the six monthly periods, 1 April 1999 to 30 September 2000 and 1 October 1999 to 31 March 2000. The category for "other wastage" includes death, dismissals and departures for other reasons. Because of the way in which the statistics are collected we are unable to provide a breakdown of each of the sub-categories in the "other wastage" column. Police figures in England and Wales _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Recruitments Retirements Resignations Other{ 1} Police force September March 2000 September March 2000 September March 2000 September March 2000 1999 1999 1999 1999 Avon and Somerset 60 44 43 61 13 8 4 17 Bedfordshire 37 0 19 20 6 5 6 2 Cambridgeshire 23 0 21 16 4 9 3 1 Cheshire 25 11 31 36 6 11 2 4 City of London 0 0 20 9 3 3 8 7 Cleveland 9 59 29 24 3 0 2 1 Cumbria 15 8 28 22 4 5 3 4 Derbyshire 34 45 14 22 2 1 5 3 Devon and Cornwall 42 32 56 56 5 12 4 1 Dorset 15 72 22 27 9 7 5 5 Durham 15 36 15 17 6 8 4 8 Dyfed Powys 38 16 17 14 2 6 0 0 Essex 41 52 72 27 13 4 14 39 Gloucestershire 29 30 23 13 6 7 1 3 Greater Manchester 159 127 118 117 23 12 14 12 Gwent 49 33 29 20 4 5 7 3 Hampshire 61 91 71 58 17 15 23 6 Hertfordshire 88 79 33 34 17 13 0 18 Humberside 37 54 38 38 4 9 6 0 Kent 107 67 43 59 14 20 7 13 Lancashire 51 48 44 34 9 22 1 1 Leicestershire 38 29 21 25 15 8 0 0 Lincolnshire 0 34 26 32 2 6 1 0 Merseyside 39 2 71 45 10 7 4 8 Metropolitan police 566 428 409 406 182 184 124 172 Norfolk 19 24 19 26 6 1 3 2 Northamptonshire 11 8 9 16 6 4 1 2 Northumbria 87 34 43 60 9 19 10 10 North Wales 40 39 24 25 0 4 2 1 North Yorkshire 1 9 25 26 5 6 3 1 Nottinghamshire 43 61 34 33 6 5 5 9 South Wales 81 43 83 22 7 7 5 7 South Yorkshire 67 61 42 58 13 9 8 7 Staffordshire 21 1 23 28 10 13 6 1 Suffolk 2 15 20 17 5 6 4 4 Surrey 87 96 27 27 8 18 0 0 Sussex 70 31 50 57 22 25 16 15 Thames Valley 88 102 57 52 29 25 4 22 Warwickshire 24 35 12 13 7 2 2 2 West Mercia 13 2 45 34 10 10 2 1 West Midlands 160 95 90 94 39 75 28 1 West Yorkshire 1 60 80 73 13 21 12 10 Wiltshire 20 9 17 23 7 18 1 0 Total all forces 2,413 2,122 2,013 1,916 581 655 360 423 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} "Other" includes death, dismissals and departures for other reasons.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

148013; 363 c242W;363 c242-3W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Dismissal Police Recruitment Retirement Resignations

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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