Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an estimate of the cumulative number of years of experience held by all police officers in (a) 2010 and (b) 2024.

The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the length of service of police officers employed within 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 length of service of police officers employed in England and Wales has been published since 2016 and can be found in Table JL5 in the data tables accompanying each publication.

Data for as at 31 March 2024 will be published in July 2024 as part of the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin.

We delivered our commitment to recruit 20,000 additional police officers. There are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, higher than the previous peak before the Police Uplift Programme, in March 2010.