§ Mr. Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate the total cost of training a recruit to the police service at a police training centre in 1957.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerFor the year ending 31st March, 1957, the latest year for which final figures are available, the average cost for each recruit for the thirteen weeks initial course was £100.
§ Mr. Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will show in tabular form the number of constables in the police forces of England and Wales, including the Metropolitan, who resigned in their first two years of service, between two and five years' service, and between five and ten years' service in the years 1955, 1956 and 1957.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerThe figures for the Metropolitan Police Force are given in the following table:
— Resignations of men with less than two years service Resignations of men with between two and five years service Resignations of men with between five and ten years service 1955 … 248 142 131 1956 … 268 77 76 1957 … 294 109 106 For other forces in England and Wales the available information is limited to the numbers of men
- (a) who resigned with less than two years service;
- (b) who retired without pension or gratuity after two years service or more.
The information in tabular form is as follows:
— Resignations of men with less than two years service Retirements without pension or gratuity of men with two years service or more 1955 … 878 1,135 1956 … 718 522 1957 … 913 761