Hampshire Constabulary: Recruitment

(asked on 8th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the 156 police officers joining Hampshire Police are planned to be fully operational.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 17th June 2020

The Government is committed to increasing the number of police officers by 20,000 over the next three years.

As of March 2020, Hampshire had not recruited any additional uplift officers against an allocation target of 156 by the end of March 2021. This recruitment profile was expected as Hampshire Police plans to recruit its uplift allocation later in 2020.

To support the force, Hampshire Police has been one of the first forces to use the new Online Assessment Centre which will support recruitment during the COVID-19 pandemic period and ensure recruitment plans remain on track. There are currently no further plans to bring forward police recruitment processes however we continue to support the force in recruitment against its year one allocation.

We do not centrally collect information on the operational deployment of officers. This remains an operational matter for Chief Constables.

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