Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Special Constables in the (a) Metropolitan Police and (b) Greater Manchester Police have been subject to disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five years; and how many such officers were subsequently relieved of their duties following such proceedings.

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of special constables that have been subject to disciplinary proceedings, nor those who were subsequently relieved of their duties following such proceedings.

However, the Home Office does collect statistics on the number of special constables that have been dismissed and figures for (a) and (b) have been provided in the following table. The reasons for dismissal cannot be identified.