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David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister about merging police forces in England and Wales since his appointment. [77126]

Mr. McNulty: My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has regular discussions with his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, about the whole range of my responsibilities.

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) serving and (b) former police officers of each police force have been imprisoned in each of the last five years. [77155]

Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not held centrally.


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David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police recruits have dropped out of training in each police force in each of the last five years; and what percentage this represents of the total number of recruits in each year. [77427]

Mr. McNulty: The figures in table A refer to police recruits who have voluntarily resigned from their force within their probationary period. Data are only available from 2003 onwards. The figures in table B are force recruitment data for the same period. The probationary period is two years in length and an officer may be recruited in one year and then resign in the next. For this reason, it is not possible accurately to cross-reference the two sets of data so as to express the number of resignations during any given year as a percentage of the officers recruited during that year.


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Table A: Probationer officer leavers full-time equivalent( 1) by year
As at 31 March
Force 2003 2004 2005

Avon and Somerset

6

21

18

Bedfordshire

16

25

26

Cambridgeshire

14

9

16

Cheshire

6

6

5

Cleveland

0

15

10

Cumbria

4

3

8

Derbyshire

4

9

8

Devon and Cornwall

10

5

17

Dorset

6

12

12

Durham

3

3

12

Dyfed-Powys

2

4

9

Essex

5

13

35

Gloucestershire

5

8

11

Greater Manchester

20

67

71

Gwent

0

2

5

Hampshire

20

40

24

Hertfordshire

16

39

40

Humberside

2

17

13

Kent

13

31

18

Lancashire

2

12

19

Leicestershire

5

8

19

Lincolnshire

8

7

7

London, City of

8

5

4

Merseyside

8

11

16

Metropolitan Police

289

377

200

Norfolk

5

6

4

Northamptonshire

7

6

3

Northumbria

4

10

11

North Wales

2

1

3

North Yorkshire

0

0

Nottinghamshire

0

6

7

South Wales

11

8

9

South Yorkshire

18

15

20

Staffordshire

5

13

28

Suffolk

9

17

13

Surrey

15

20

19

Sussex

24

84

74

Thames Valley

32

34

60

Warwickshire

5

4

0

West Mercia

6

11

8

West Midlands

51

46

45

West Yorkshire

16

24

28

Wiltshire

8

7

6

Total

690

1,060

961

(1) Full-time equivalent includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave

Table B: Police officer joiners( 1)
As at 31 March
Force 2003 2004 2005

Avon and Somerset

40

317

93

Bedfordshire

89

178

106

Cambridgeshire

77

107

99

Cheshire

141

153

82

Cleveland

129

138

83

Cumbria

63

113

51

Derbyshire

146

146

64

Devon and Cornwall

138

131

200

Dorset

72

86

76

Durham

21

104

79

Dyfed-Powys

7

53

35

Essex

40

225

276

Gloucestershire

53

98

60

Greater Manchester

113

978

233

Gwent

45

78

102

Hampshire

267

282

204

Hertfordshire

202

279

155

Humberside

57

188

126

Kent

192

290

191

Lancashire

240

311

148

Leicestershire

116

245

123

Lincolnshire

64

44

59

London, City of

45

52

39

Merseyside

101

192

389

Metropolitan Police

2,443

2,974

1,880

Norfolk

71

56

77

Northamptonshire

45

99

109

Northumbria

151

197

159

North Wales

75

66

71

North Yorkshire

99

82

71

Nottinghamshire

89

138

138

South Wales

180

173

118

South Yorkshire

103

261

205

Staffordshire

29

137

117

Suffolk

81

113

37

Surrey

93

116

129

Sussex

139

320

229

Thames Valley

306

479

361

Warwickshire

57

51

59

West Mercia

235

88

90

West Midlands

478

408

476

West Yorkshire

277

337

566

Wiltshire

63

120

70

Total

7,471

11,003

8,035

(1) Joiners include constables who were previously Special Constables or joined as a Police Standard Direct Recruit or on the Police High Potential Development scheme. Figures are based on full-time equivalent which includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.

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