FOI 12571 a nd 12572

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NOs:  West Mercia Police 12571 and Warwickshire Police 12572

I write in connection with your requests for information which were received on 11^th September 2019.  Please find below the responses to your requests for West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police information:

1. Could you please confirm the annual salary paid to police trainees during their initial training period (i.e. the approximate 12 weeks training period prior to a police trainee becoming a probationary police Constable) for each of the following dates:

1.9.2017, 1.9.2018 & 1.9.2019

Could you please comment upon your forces current position regarding the implementation of the Police Educational Qualifications Framework (PEQF), namely:

2.       Has your force initiated any intake of apprenticeship police constables? If yes, what percentage of all new recruits in the last calendar year have entered the force via this route?

3. Has your force implemented the new ‘pre-join degree’ route into policing? If yes, how many people have enrolled to complete the degree in Professional Policing?  

4. What percentage of all new recruits in each of the following years have been a degree-holder upon their recruitment to your force?

                2008, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 (year to date)

5. What percentage of your current total police officer workforce, who did not have a degree upon their initial recruitment to the force, have subsequently gone on to achieve a degree whilst working as a police officer?

6. What percentage of your current total police officer workforce currently have a degree?

REPLY:

West Mercia Police 12571

Warwickshire Police 12572

1.9.17 £23,123 moving to £23,124 after 26 weeks

1.9.18 £23,585 moving to £23,586 after 26 weeks

1.9.19 £24,176 moving to £24,177 after 26 weeks

2. Nil return
3. Nil return
4. No Information held. The information is not recorded on our HR System.
5. No information held. The information is not recorded on our HR System.
6. The percentage of officers with a degree or degree equivalent recorded on HR

West Mercia  Police                         31.38%

Warwickshire Police                        21.53%