Metropolitan Police: Recruitment

(asked on 20th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the new recruits for the Metropolitan Police (a) have been and (b) will be allocated to South West London.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 27th January 2022

We are increasing the number of police officers in England and Wales by 20,000 by the end of March 2023 and I am pleased to say excellent progress is being made in delivering against this target.

Due to their hard work and commitment, police forces in England and Wales have already recruited over 11,000 additional officers, 55% of the 20,000-officer target. This is on top of recruitment of new officers to backfill leavers.

As at 30 September 2021, the Metropolitan Police Service had recruited 2,070 additional officers against a combined allocation of 2,713 additional officers for years one and two of the uplift programme. The force has been allocated a further 1,825 additional officers to be recruited by March 2023. The deployment of officers is a decision for operationally independent Chief Constables.

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