Police: Recruitment
(asked on 22nd October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she is on track to meet her target of delivering 13,000 new police officers.
This question was answered on 29th October 2026
As part of the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, the Government has committed to delivering 13,000 additional neighbourhood policing personnel by the end of this Parliament.
By March 2026, forces had delivered 3,814 additional police officers and PCSOs into neighbourhood roles compared with the March 2025 baseline, exceeding the 2025/26 target of 3,000. We are building on that progress in 2026/27, with total growth expected to reach 4,750 additional personnel by March 2027.