Thousands of police officers recruited under Boris Johnson’s flagship manifesto pledge to boost numbers have already resigned, theipaper can reveal 🔴 Exclusive from SteveRobson04
under the Police Uplift Programme by March 2023 in a bid to reverse a decade of austerity cuts made by his Conservative predecessors.
Publicly available figures show the Metropolitan Police lost at least 2,123 officers to voluntary resignation between 2019-2022, although this includes all officers, not just those recruited under the PUP programme. There has also been criticism of the decision to make recruits complete either an apprenticeship, degree or diploma on top of regular police officer training.
Several new recruits highlighted struggling to juggle academic learning on top of police training, she said. “They were talking about the pressure of uni work alongside training and a full time job,” Dr Charman told“Some found it rushed, some mentioned the attitude of tutors. The ones that came out quite quickly talked about it not being the job that they thought it was going to be. They found it too challenging trying to study and do the job at the same time.
“You’ve got parents phoning up the chief inspector to say, it’s my son’s birthday tonight, he’s not going to work the night shift, you can put him on a day shift,” he toldlast year, Nick Adderly, Chief Constable of Northants Police, revealed his force is losing around 120 people a year, of which a significant number are new recruits.
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