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Reference:
2025/0886
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Question by:
Caroline Russell
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Meeting date:
20 March 2025
In your follow-up letter to my question 2023/3947, where I raised the issue of the reduction in the number of officers in the Road Transport Policing Command (RTPC), you provided a table of the RTPC Officer Count since 2016. This shows that nine years ago, there were 2,200 RTPC officers, but in 2023 this had reduced to 1,804. You explained this by saying: “The reduction in officer numbers over this time reflects the challenges in the recruitment and retention of officers to the RTPC, given workforce pressures in other priority areas of the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service].” Could you tell...