Question follow-through · 19775
Police: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled More bobbies on the beat as PM puts people's priorities first, published on 4 December 2024, what steps her Department is taking to recruit 13,000 (a) polic
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled More bobbies on the beat as PM puts people's priorities first, published on 4 December 2024, what steps her Department is taking to recruit 13,000 (a) polic
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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20 Dec 2024
Answer published
As part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission, the Home Secretary has made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. This includes delivering an additional 13,000 police off...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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