Questions to the Mayor of London – answered at on 23 May 2022.
Susan Hall
Conservative
For each financial year 2018/19, 2019/20 2020/21 and 2021/22 what is the number of Volunteer Police Cadets in the Met?
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London
The table below shows the average number of Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) in each of the last four financial years.
Average number of VPC
2018/19
4720
2019/20
4143
2020/21
4013
2021/22
3493
The wider effects of the pandemic and successive lockdowns have significantly impacted the VPC programme. Cadet meetings and events had to move online, leading to a reduction in numbers as the activities offered were much more limited.
As the full range of VPC activities has resumed, numbers of cadets are now rising again.
