Police: Disciplinary Proceedings
(asked on 15th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been (a) suspended and (b) had their employment terminated in each of the last five years.
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers who are suspended (as at 31st March each year) on an annual basis. The Home Office also collects and publishes statistics on the number of officers who are dismissed from each police force in England and Wales on an annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales
The latest data available on the number of police officers who are suspended, as at 31 March 2017, can be found in Table W2 of the accompanying Data Tables:
Data for previous years, as at 31 March each year, can be found in the accompanying Open Data Table:
Dismissal is defined as “individuals who have been required to resign, made compulsorily redundant, or have had their contract terminated”. The latest data available on the number of police officers who have been dismissed in the financial year 2016/17, can be found in Table JL4 of the accompanying Data Tables:
Data for previous years can be found in the accompanying Open Data Table: