Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have (a) been recruited by and (b) left the National Crime Agency since January 2023.

The NCA recruits officers using the Civil Service Recruitment Principles of fair and open competition and appointment by merit. For campaigns run on this basis, it does not centrally record candidates’ originator organisations. I am therefore unable to provide the breakdown of numbers of Police Officers who have been recruited into the agency since 2023 and Police Officers who have left.

The NCA also runs a programme of secondment only recruitment campaigns which are targeted at Police Forces and offer opportunities for Police Officers to work at the NCA for fixed periods of time before returning to their original force. Since April 2023, 20 officers have joined the NCA on secondment from Police Forces. The secondment route makes up only a very small proportion of our overall workforce planning process.