§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Metropolitan police officers have been recruited from(a) Surrey police and (b) service at Epsom police station in each of the last three years. [24118]
§ Mr. DenhamThe information is as follows:
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Surrey police—transfers to the Metropolitan police Year Number of officers transferring in total from Surrey police Number of Epsom based officers who transferred to the Metropolitan police1 1998–99 2 — 1999–2000 1 — 2000–01 9 1 2001–022 29 2 1 Before 1 April 2000 Epsom police station was part of the Metropolitan police service. It is therefore only possible to show the number of Surrey police officers who were based at Epsom and transferred to the Metropolitan police service from 1 April 2000.
2 To 18 December 2001.
These figures do not include Metropolitan police service (MPS) officers who were seconded to Surrey police following the boundary changes of 1 April 2000 and have since returned to the MPS.
Following the boundary changes on 1 April 2000, 249 MPS officers were seconded to the Surrey police of whom 63 were posted to Epsom police station. Since then 209 officers have returned to the MPS of whom 56 were based at Epsom.