Police: Employment Mr. Amess To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average length of employment as (a) a police officer and (b) a police community support officer was of officers employed in (i) Southend and (ii) Essex Constabulary in each of the last three years for which figures are available. Mr. McNulty Information on length of service for police officers is not available in the form requested. Available data are for police force area and are given in the following table. Length of service includes time spent in other police forces in England and Wales. The requested data for police community support officers are not collected centrally. ---------------------------------------------- | |31 March each year| ---------------------------------------------- | |2004 |2005|2006| ---------------------------------------------- |Less than six months |106 |183|197| ---------------------------------------------- |Six months to one year |131 |85|73| ---------------------------------------------- |One year to two years |240 |217|225| ---------------------------------------------- |Two years to three years |205 |230|199| ---------------------------------------------- |Three years to four years|169 |203|202| ---------------------------------------------- |Four years to five years |60 |164|183| ---------------------------------------------- |Five years to 10 years |450 |427|484| ---------------------------------------------- |10 years to 15 years |553 |477|447| ---------------------------------------------- |15 years to 20 years |478 |535|553| ---------------------------------------------- |20 years to 21 years |58 |87|84| ---------------------------------------------- |21 years to 22 years |57 |57|77| ---------------------------------------------- |22 years to 23 years |69 |56|69| ---------------------------------------------- |23 years to 24 years |63 |65|66| ---------------------------------------------- |24 years to 25 years |106 |62|68| ---------------------------------------------- |25 years to 26 years |101 |92|63| ---------------------------------------------- |26 years to 27 years |62 |94|101| ---------------------------------------------- |27 years to 28 years |75 |57|93| ---------------------------------------------- |28 years to 29 years |87 |69|63| ---------------------------------------------- |29 years to 30 years |62 |82|72| ---------------------------------------------- |30 years to 31 years |16 |15|32| ---------------------------------------------- |31 years to 32 years |8 |9|5| ---------------------------------------------- |32 years to 33 years |6 |4|9| ---------------------------------------------- |33 years to 34 years |1 |6|4| ---------------------------------------------- |34 years to 35 years |1 |0|3| ---------------------------------------------- |35 years and over |1 |2|2| ----------------------------------------------