Question follow-through · 900770
Police: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on recruiting police officers and police community support officers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on recruiting police officers and police community support officers.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2024
Answer published
This Government is committed to strengthening neighbourhood policing as part of our Safer Streets Mission, putting neighbourhood police officers and community support officers back on the beat in every part of the country.We are currently working closely ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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