Voluntary Resignations - 449/22

Date Responded 08 April 2022

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

Could you please tell me for the years 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 how many officers Resigned Voluntarily with between 5 and 10 years Service?

In Response:

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.

As advised in our acknowledgement, this submission has been aggregated with your previous submission on this subject matter, FOI 229/22 refers, due to the cost/time constraints under the Acts legislation.

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the People Systems Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

Financial Yr

Length of Service (Yrs)

Total

2016/17

5 - 10

13

2017/18

5

2018/19

3

2019/20

5

2020/21

4

 

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

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