FOI 814-2025 / Aug 2025 / Officers leaving Warwickshire Police
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 814-2025
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 6th August as follows:
I would like to request the following data:
Q1. The number of police officers who have resigned or transferred out of Warwickshire Police, broken down by month, for each of the past five calendar years, including the current year to date (i.e., from August 2020 to the most recent available month in 2025).
Q2. For each of these resignations or transfers, a breakdown of the officers' length of service at the time of leaving, grouped where necessary (e.g., 0-1 year, 1-5 years, 5-10 years, 10+ years).
Q3. Where available, the reason for each resignation or transfer, as recorded by Warwickshire Police (e.g., retirement, career change, personal reasons, transfer to another force, job dissatisfaction, etc.). If individual reasons cannot be disclosed, please provide a summary or breakdown of the categories used.
Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in providing the response to your request and for any inconvenience that this may have caused. Please find the response for Warwickshire Police set out below, based on the information available.
The numerical data presented in this response is an unaudited snapshot of unpublished data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.
Q1 response:
|
Officer Resignations / Transfers |
||||||
|
Month |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025* |
Total |
|
January |
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
11 |
|
February |
1 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
13 |
|
March |
|
2 |
4 |
8 |
3 |
17 |
|
April |
1 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
12 |
|
May |
4 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
17 |
|
June |
2 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
14 |
|
July |
|
5 |
4 |
4 |
|
13 |
|
August |
1 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
|
11 |
|
September |
2 |
7 |
4 |
4 |
|
17 |
|
October |
|
6 |
6 |
5 |
|
17 |
|
November |
2 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
|
14 |
|
December |
3 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
|
10 |
|
Grand Total |
16 |
51 |
43 |
40 |
16 |
166 |
*Up to 30th June 2025
Q2 response:
|
Resignations / Transfers |
||||||
|
Years of service |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025* |
Total |
|
0-1 Year |
0 |
10 |
10 |
5 |
0 |
25 |
|
1-5 Years |
7 |
24 |
20 |
18 |
2 |
71 |
|
5-10 Years |
3 |
5 |
2 |
13 |
9 |
32 |
|
10+ Years |
6 |
12 |
11 |
4 |
5 |
38 |
|
Grand Total |
16 |
51 |
43 |
40 |
16 |
166 |
*Up to 30th June 2025
Q3 response:
|
Reason for resignation |
Total* |
|
Fairness and Support |
1 |
|
Morale, Engagement, and Satisfaction |
2 |
|
Personal and Professional Development/Training |
1 |
|
Personal Circumstances |
7 |
|
Resourcing and Work Conditions |
4 |
|
Transfer to Another Force*** |
24 |
|
Work Life Balance and Wellbeing |
3 |
|
Unknown |
14 |
|
Not Captured** |
110 |
|
Grand Total |
166 |
*Up to 30th June 2025
**Reason for resignation did not start to be captured until midway through 2024
***Transfers only recorded as ‘Transfer to another force’
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible; however, the data is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system that relies on manual input, therefore care should be taken to ensure data collection processes, and their inevitable limitations are considered when interpreting the data.
Your attention is drawn to the below which details your right of complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write or email the Freedom of Information Unit quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB