Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of police officers that have left the service in (a) England and (b) Wales in each of the last five years.

The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers leaving the police service in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.

Information on the number of police officer leavers in each of the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales, between the years ending 31 March 2007 to 2023 can be found in the Leavers Open Data Table here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1172932/open-data-table-police-workforce-leavers-260723.ods