Recruitment figures (208A/24)
Request
Please could you provide the following information in regards to police recruits completing probation:
*How many police officers have been taken on in the last five years? (Annual breakdown) *How many of those police officers have completed their probation periods? (Annual breakdown) *What is the cost of training a police officer?
Response
Please find enclosed our response.
How many police officers have been taken on in the last five years? (Annual breakdown)
| New Recruits – Entry Routes | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Grand Total |
| Police Now | 13 | 92 | 18 | 18 | 141 | |
| Police Now Detective | 26 | 48 | 41 | 115 | ||
| IPLDP | 148 | 148 | ||||
| PCDA | 44 | 415 | 383 | 274 | 142 | 1258 |
| DHEP | 47 | 346 | 288 | 168 | 71 | 920 |
| DC DHEP | 40 | 161 | 72 | 273 | ||
| Pre-Join Degree | 9 | 19 | 28 | |||
| IPOC | 110 | 110 | ||||
| IPLDP+ | 120 | 120 | ||||
| IPLDP+ DC | 66 | 66 | ||||
| Grand Total | 252 | 853 | 755 | 678 | 641 | 3179 |
Note: New recruits only, therefore excludes Direct Entry, Rejoiners and Transfer.
How many of those police officers have completed their probation periods? (Annual breakdown)
| New Recruits – Entry Routes | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Grand Total |
| Police Now | 11 | 81 | 16 | 108 | |
| Police Now Detective | 23 | 23 | |||
| IPLDP | 143 | 143 | |||
| PCDA | 42 | 359 | 79 | 480 | |
| DHEP | 42 | 314 | 257 | 31 | 644 |
| DC DHEP | 39 | 39 | |||
| Grand Total | 238 | 754 | 414 | 31 | 1437 |
Note: New recruits only, therefore excludes Direct Entry, Rejoiners and Transfer
Note: Completed their Probation Periods – the probation period for PCDA is 3 years, whilst all other new recruit entry routes have a probation period of 2 years. Only those who joined 2 or 3 years ago respectively will have completed by now (1st Feb 2024), providing they didn’t leave before the end of the 2 or 3 year period. Hence there are few PCDA joiners from 2021 who have already completed their probation period and similarly few joiners from 2022 for the other entry routes (given there has not been a full 2 or 3 year period since they joined).
The cost of police officer training varies by entry route due to the different learning requirements of each route and the availability of financial support from the Apprenticeship levy for the PCDA programme.
Work was completed in mid-2023 at a national level to estimate the total delivery cost of formal learning for the different programmes and these are outlined below:
- PCDA = £7,400 to £15,000 (after the Apprenticeship Levy drawdown)
- DHEP = £18,000
- PPD = £6,000 to £9,000
- PCEP = £17,000
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