Police Uplift Programme: entry routes of officer recruits

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The current government made a manifesto commitment to recruit an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales over a 3-year period by 31 March 2023. Throughout the duration of the recruitment campaign the Home Office published a quarterly Police officer uplift statistical release to provide information on the recruitment of these additional officers. The release contained information on the number of police officer recruits that joined during the PUP, between November 2019 and March 2023, in England and Wales.

The Police officer uplift statistical series was independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) in October 2022. The statistics comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics and should be labelled Accredited Official Statistics. Details about the OSR’s recommendations and actions taken by the Home Office can be found in the annex accompanying the National Statistics designation letter. This included a requirement to publish a one-off release on the entry-route of police officer recruits during the PUP which users of the uplift statistics expressed were of interest.

In response to the OSR’s assessment, this one-off release collates information on police officer recruits that joined during the PUP and provides data sets not previously published on the entry routes of these recruits. The release does not provide any new data on the size or composition of the total police workforce or on police officers in post in relation to the maintenance of the PUP.