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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers have retired from (a) Suffolk Constabulary, (b) Norfolk Constabulary, (c) Essex Police Force and (d) Cambridgeshire Constabulary in each of the last five years; and what the national average age of retirement was in each year. [143533] Ms Blears: The number of police officers who have retired in each of the last five years from each force is given in the table. Police retirements: ordinary and medical _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 46 38 43 44 44 Essex 101 124 99 104 90 Norfolk 47 45 49 51 65 Suffolk 44 37 52 36 46 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Information on the national average retirement age of police officers is not held centrally and not readily available locally. However the information for Suffolk is as follows. Suffolk: average retirement age of police officers _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Average age 1998-99 47.06 1999-2000 49.85 2000-01 49.36 2001-02 48.51 2002-03 51.71 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

143533; 415 c867-8W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Age Essex Police Norfolk Retirement Suffolk Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Constabulary Essex Police Suffolk Constabulary Norfolk Constabulary

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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