Question follow-through · 19279
Metropolitan Police
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took to consult experienced police personnel in the development of the Metropolitan Police's new frontline policing rotation policy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2026 · 48 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took to consult experienced police personnel in the development of the Metropolitan Police's new frontline policing rotation policy.
1 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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1 Sept 2026
Answer published
Police forces are operationally independent and the deployment of officers remains an operational decision. It is for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to decide how to allocate the resources available to the force, including the deployment of police o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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