§ Mr. SheldonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the average costs of recruitment of policemen(a) in the Metropolitan area and (b) in the rest of England. [58838]
§ Kate HoeyThe Commissioner tells me that the current average cost of recruiting a police officer for the Metropolitan Police Service is estimated at £780.
Information about the cost of police recruitment for the rest of England is not collected centrally and could be obtained from each police force only at disproportionate cost.