Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers had a length of service that was (a) less than one year, (b) one year to less than two years, (c) two years to less than five years, (d) five years to less than 10 years and (e) more than 10 years in West Yorkshire as of 31 March in each year since 2010.

The Home Office collects and publishes information on the length of service of police officers in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), annually in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulleting 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 by West Yorkshire Police can be found in table JL5 of the data tables accompanying each publication for the year ending 31 March 2016 onwards.

The Home Office does not publish information on the length of service of police officers that have left the police service. The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers leaving the police service in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin however this does not include information on their length of service.

Data on the number of police officers leaving West Yorkshire Police, in the years ending March 2007 to 2023, can be found in the ‘Leavers Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1172932/open-data-table-police-workforce-leavers-260723.ods.