Cost of hiring police officers (579A/23)
Request
1.Please provide the total cost of hiring one new full-time police officer – including annual salary, pension contributions, recruitment costs, training costs, additional resources cost, and any further expenditure required in the hiring of a new officer.
2.Please provide the total cost of hiring one new PCSO – including annual salary, pension contributions, recruitment costs, training costs, additional resources cost, and any further expenditure required in the hiring of a new PCSO.
3.Please provide the total cost of hiring one new special constable – including any pay awarded, recruitment costs, training costs, additional resources cost, and any further expenditure required in the hiring of a special constable.
Response
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.