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Police: Resignations
Mr. Jeremy Browne:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of police officers in each police force area left the police force within two years of joining in each of the last 10 years. [168640]
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police recruits left the police force within two years of joining since 1997, broken down by police force area; and what percentage of leavers that figure represents. [165671]
28 Nov 2007 : Column 471W
Mr. McNulty:
Data are available from 2002-03 onwards and are given in the following tables. The number of transfers between forces has been separately identified as these officers, while leaving individual police forces, have not left the police service itself.
N umber of police officers leaving the force with less than two years service and the percentage of total police officer leavers that this figure represents from 2002-03 to 2006-07( 1) |
| 2002-03 |
Police force area | Number of transfers (included as part of overall officers leaving the service) | Number of police officers leaving the force with less than two years service | Percentage of police officers leaving with less than two years service |
Avon and Somerset
|
0
|
39
|
19
|
Bedfordshire
|
0
|
17
|
18
|
Cambridgeshire
|
1
|
17
|
16
|
Cheshire
|
0
|
6
|
5
|
Cleveland
|
0
|
2
|
3
|
Cumbria
|
0
|
5
|
8
|
Derbyshire
|
0
|
7
|
6
|
Devon and Cornwall
|
0
|
20
|
13
|
Dorset
|
0
|
13
|
19
|
Durham
|
|
6
|
8
|
Dyfed-Powys
|
1
|
6
|
11
|
Essex
|
4
|
23
|
11
|
Gloucestershire
|
0
|
13
|
16
|
Greater Manchester
|
2
|
56
|
15
|
Gwent
|
0
|
2
|
3
|
Hampshire
|
3
|
29
|
13
|
Hertfordshire
|
3
|
33
|
17
|
Humberside
|
|
17
|
16
|
Kent
|
5
|
43
|
20
|
Lancashire(2)
|
|
|
|
Leicestershire(3)
|
1
|
9
|
7
|
Lincolnshire
|
5
|
15
|
21
|
London, City of
|
0
|
11
|
19
|
Merseyside
|
1
|
10
|
5
|
Metropolitan Police
|
16
|
410
|
24
|
Norfolk
|
0
|
12
|
13
|
Northamptonshire
|
0
|
8
|
14
|
Northumbria
|
0
|
20
|
12
|
North Wales
|
1
|
9
|
12
|
North Yorkshire
|
|
8
|
14
|
Nottinghamshire
|
|
8
|
6
|
South Wales
|
1
|
25
|
16
|
South Yorkshire
|
1
|
24
|
14
|
Staffordshire
|
|
12
|
9
|
Suffolk
|
1
|
12
|
14
|
Surrey
|
20
|
53
|
21
|
Sussex
|
2
|
47
|
19
|
Thames valley
|
13
|
53
|
14
|
Warwickshire
|
0
|
12
|
21
|
West Mercia
|
1
|
13
|
11
|
West Midlands
|
4
|
88
|
17
|
West Yorkshire
|
1
|
30
|
12
|
Wiltshire
|
0
|
10
|
12
|
Total(4)
|
96
|
1,244
|
16
|
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| 2003-04 |
Police force area | Number of transfers (included as part of overall officers leaving the service) | Number of police officers leaving the force with less than two years service | Percentage of police officers leaving with less than two years service |
Avon and Somerset
|
0
|
33
|
23
|
Bedfordshire
|
1
|
22
|
21
|
Cambridgeshire
|
0
|
10
|
11
|
Cheshire
|
2
|
12
|
11
|
Cleveland
|
0
|
9
|
11
|
Cumbria
|
0
|
3
|
6
|
Derbyshire
|
0
|
13
|
15
|
Devon and Cornwall
|
0
|
10
|
8
|
Dorset
|
1
|
15
|
20
|
Durham
|
3
|
11
|
14
|
Dyfed-Powys
|
0
|
5
|
13
|
Essex
|
4
|
19
|
9
|
Gloucestershire
|
1
|
10
|
18
|
Greater Manchester
|
0
|
65
|
20
|
Gwent
|
0
|
3
|
4
|
Hampshire
|
3
|
48
|
21
|
Hertfordshire
|
3
|
43
|
27
|
Humberside
|
4
|
22
|
23
|
Kent
|
1
|
45
|
20
|
Lancashire(2)
|
0
|
18
|
14
|
Leicestershire(3)
|
0
|
16
|
19
|
Lincolnshire
|
0
|
7
|
11
|
London, City of
|
0
|
5
|
9
|
Merseyside
|
0
|
14
|
8
|
Metropolitan Police
|
11
|
394
|
25
|
Norfolk
|
0
|
6
|
12
|
Northamptonshire
|
1
|
7
|
10
|
Northumbria
|
0
|
20
|
11
|
North Wales
|
|
7
|
12
|
North Yorkshire
|
0
|
7
|
9
|
Nottinghamshire
|
6
|
14
|
11
|
South Wales
|
4
|
11
|
7
|
South Yorkshire
|
3
|
23
|
14
|
Staffordshire
|
0
|
12
|
12
|
Suffolk
|
1
|
20
|
27
|
Surrey
|
11
|
40
|
27
|
Sussex
|
1
|
87
|
30
|
Thames valley
|
5
|
37
|
12
|
Warwickshire
|
0
|
7
|
13
|
West Mercia
|
1
|
22
|
18
|
West Midlands
|
0
|
7
|
2
|
West Yorkshire
|
1
|
32
|
13
|
Wiltshire
|
3
|
14
|
21
|
Total(4)
|
71
|
1,191
|
17
|