Police: Recruitment
(asked on 25th February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many frontline police officers are probationary.
This question was answered on 11th March 2025
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of police officers, by frontline type, in the 'Police Workforce, England and Wales' statistical bulletin. The latest data, covering the situation as at 31 March 2024, is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.
However, information on an officer's probation status is not centrally collected by the Home Office.