Home Department written question – answered at on 18 April 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the retirement age is for employees of the police service.
There is no fixed retirement age for police officers under the current police pension scheme under which officers can build up a maximum pension after 30 years service. Officers with at least 25 years service may retire with an immediate pension from age 50.
The age threshold does not apply, however, to officers with 30 years service. This means that an officer who joined at age 18½—the earliest age at which it is possible to start as a police officer—is entitled to retire at age 48½ with a full pension.
Otherwise officers become eligible to retire with an immediate pension between the ages of 55 and 60 depending on the compulsory retirement age for their rank and force. Officers with less than 25 years service who leave the police with deferred benefits will receive their pension at age 60. The Government are introducing a new pension scheme for new entrant police officers from
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