Police: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of police officer recruits left the police force within two years of joining in each of the last 10 years. (140775)

The available data on the length of service on leaving the force are available from 2002-03 onwards, and are given in the following table.

*Number of police officers leaving*¹ *within 2 years of joining the service, from 2002-03 to 2005-06*
Headcount
	Number of officers leaving within two years	Percentage of officers leaving within two years from total number of leavers
2002-03	1,273	15.1
2003-04	1,250	16.7
2004-05	1,164	15.0
2005-06	861	9.8
¹ Includes transfers to other England and Wales forces but does not include officers leaving after a period of secondment.

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 12 June 2007