Home Department written question – answered at on 9 January 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of police officers who will retire in each of the next five years.
The requested information can be estimated from the centrally collected data within the police personnel statistics series.
Police officers are eligible for retirement with an ordinary pension after 25 years of service. An ordinary pension is payable from age 50 unless the officer has completed 30 years of service, in which case he or she may retire with an immediate pension even if under the age of 50. Data for the number of police officers with 25 to 26 years, 26 to 27 years, 27 to 28 years, 28 to 29 years and 29 to 30 years of service are available.
Officers with less than 25 years of service may retire with an immediate pension between the ages of 55 and 60, depending on their rank and police force. Data for the number of police officers over the age of 55 are available.
We estimate that between 4,000 and 5,000 officers will retire with an ordinary, short-service or ill-health pension in each of the next five years.
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