Question follow-through · 84744
Police: Resignations and Retirement
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to prevent police officers under investigation from (a) resigning and (b) retiring before disciplinary proceedings are completed.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to prevent police officers under investigation from (a) resigning and (b) retiring before disciplinary proceedings are completed.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
It’s crucial that police officers are held to the high standards rightly expected of them, and we’re committed to ensuring that the right mechanisms are in place to create an open and transparent police discipline system which delivers fair results for al...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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