Police: Retirement

Home Office written question – answered at on 7 November 2024.

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Photo of Suella Braverman Suella Braverman Conservative, Fareham and Waterlooville

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have medically retired from active duty due to (a) physical and (b) psychological (i) injury and (ii) trauma in the last five years.

Photo of Diana R. Johnson Diana R. Johnson The Minister of State, Home Department

The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers leaving the police service in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.

Information on the number of police officers leaving via medical retirement, between the years ending 31 March 2007 to 2024, can be found in the ‘Leavers Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/669a917cce1fd0da7b59294f/open-data-table-police-workforce-leavers-240724.ods

The Home Office does not collect data on the specific reason for medical retirement.

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