To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many police officers of the Royal Military Police they estimate will be deployed in (1) 2015–16, (2) 2016–17, (3) 2017–18, (4) 2018–19, and (5) 2019–20.
Answered on
9 February 2016
The number of Regular personnel in the Royal Military Police (RMP) as at
1 April 2015 was 1,610. The forecast of Regular personnel in the RMP is as follows:
April 2016 | April 2017 | April 2018 | April 2019 | April 2020 |
1,600 | 1,600 | 1,610 | 1,600 | 1,580 |
The number of Regular personnel expected to complete their basic training and join the RMP are as follows:
2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 |
140 | 120 | 140 | 120 | 110 |
All totals are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy; therefore totals may not equal the sum of their parts. All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10 with numbers ending in five rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid bias.