Actual ages of police officer retirement by rank

Alan Elsegood made this Freedom of Information request to Home Office

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From: Alan Elsegood

6 November 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

Replies by the Home Secretary to requests in Parliament for data
relating to the actual ages on retirement (as opposed to the
Compulsory Retirement Age) appear to have been less than frank.
Given that the Home Office and/or the relevant Constabulary) has a
personnel record for every serving officer, the date of any
officer's actual retirement, at the CPA or earlier or later, is a
matter of record. I now request to be advised, for 2006 or any
later year, the age on normal retirement (ie. exclusive of medical
retirement) of police officers in each rank and by gender.

Yours faithfully,

A D Elsegood

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From: Alan Elsegood

16 January 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

How convenient that you don't compile information to answer my
question about the actual retirement ages of senior Police
Officers. Any competent Personnel Dept., in private industry or
commerce would know at what age members of their senior management
had retired, were scheduled to retire etc., because that's part of
succession planning and for pension planning. But not the Home
Office! And not for senior Police Officers! Either it's bull**it or
utter incompetence, or simply an attempt to prevent such
information being analysed as it would reveal matters which this
Government would rather not have exposed to scrutiny. Am I
surprised? Not a bit. Will I complain? And bang my head against
another wall for several months? Not likely! The public sector is a
disgrace and a waste of time. About time for some thinning-out!

Yours sincerely,

Alan Elsegood

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dennis fallon left an annotation ( 4 February 2009)

Alan,excellent exposure of Government incompetence.

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