Question follow-through · 104130
Police: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers hired in the last ten years in England underwent standard vetting procedures prior to their hiring.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers hired in the last ten years in England underwent standard vetting procedures prior to their hiring.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the vetting of new recruits over the last ten years. This information is held by each individual police force.Following the Metropolitan Police Service’s (MPS) Operation Jorica review, the Home Secretary has...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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