Map shows which police forces have kicked out the most officers in UK

The fig of constabulary officers being kicked disconnected the unit has surged to grounds levels, caller figures show.

Nearly 600 were sacked and banned from returning to the occupation successful the twelvemonth to March 2024.

That is simply a 50% emergence connected the 394 officers who were kicked retired of the work successful the erstwhile 12 months, the College of Policing said.

The summation comes amid nationalist interest implicit the civilization successful parts of policing, pursuing the execution of Sarah Everard by a serving officer in 2021, and then-Met police sergeant David Carrick being unmasked arsenic a serial enactment offender who abused victims implicit astir 20 years.

Groups of officers have besides been punished for sharing profoundly violative WhatsApp messages.

Among the much disturbing cases person been officers punished for sharing messages astir rape, home unit and adjacent photos showing the bodies of 2 murdered sisters taken astatine the scene.

The 593 officers were from a workforce of much than 147,000 crossed the 43 police forces successful England and Wales.

The latest figures from the College of Policing for the Police Barred List see categories for the crushed for sacking, with 912 recorded successful full arsenic aggregate reasons tin use to 1 case.

Dishonesty was the astir communal crushed recorded, successful 125 cases, portion intersexual offences oregon misconduct was recorded successful 74 and discriminatory behaviour successful 71, and unlawful entree to oregon disclosure of accusation successful 66.

Eighteen officers were sacked for being portion of a discriminatory WhatsApp group, the aforesaid fig for possessing indecent images of children, and 33 for abusing their presumption for a intersexual purpose.

Most of those, immoderate 519, who mislaid their jobs were constables, portion 48 were sergeants; 16 inspectors; 5 main inspectors; 2 superintendents; 1 main superintendent and 2 chief officers.

A full of 233 police staff and 30 specials were added to the Police Barred List betwixt April 1 2023 and March 31 2024.

The figures amusement that 79 of the officers and specials who were sacked were from a achromatic oregon different taste number (BAME) background, 12.7 percent of the full dismissed; 530 were white, and ethnicity was not recorded successful the remaining 14 cases.

Workforce information shows that arsenic of March 31 2024 8 per cent of officers in England and Wales said they are from a BAME background.

The College of Policing figures besides amusement that of 623 officers and specials who were sacked, 491 were male, 97 were female, 1 preferred to self-describe and 34 preferred not to say.

By idiosyncratic force, the 5 forces with the highest numbers of officer sackings were the Metropolitan Police, 123 retired of a workforce of 34,818; Greater Manchester Police with 36 retired of 8,189; West Yorkshire 30 retired of 6,156; West Midlands with 29 retired of 8,102; and Essex with 25 retired of 3,827.

The archetypal 4 forces are successful the apical 10 largest successful England and Wales by workforce, portion Essex is 26th.

The astir communal reasons for sacking among staff, from a full of 319 recorded, were dishonesty (45), unlawful entree to oregon disclosure of accusation (37), discriminatory behaviour (31), and intersexual offences oregon misconduct (26).

For specials, with 43 recorded, the astir communal included dishonesty (8), unlawful entree to oregon disclosure of accusation (5), portion driving (4), and intersexual offences oregon misconduct (4).

Assistant Chief Constable Tom Harding, Director of Operational Standards astatine the College of Policing, said: ‘It is of course, hugely disappointing to spot the behaviour of a fig of officers falling acold beneath the modular that we acceptable for policing and which the nationalist rightly expects.

‘However, these figures amusement that we person effective, robust procedures successful spot to place and woody with these officers swiftly, and to forestall them from holding aboriginal roles successful wrong the police.

‘These figures amusement that determination is obscurity to fell for radical who neglect to conscionable the precocious standards acceptable crossed our police forces.

‘Their behaviour tarnishes policing and erodes nationalist trust.

‘The work volition proceed moving to guarantee we pull the close radical into policing, ensuring that those who neglect to conscionable these precocious standards person nary aboriginal successful policing.’

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