The police exodus threatens Starmer’s manifesto promise for more officers

Labour's plans to put more bobbies on the job will fail as a record number of officers resign or plan to leave, the Police Federation has warned.

In an exclusive article for The Telegraph, Tiff Lynch, acting chairman of the Federation, which represents frontline officers, said Labour's plans for 13,000 extra community police officers were "unfeasible" due to the turnover of officers leaving the service.

Figures from the Ministry of the Interior show that the number of police officers who have voluntarily left the service has reached a record high of more than 5,000, or 3.4 percent of the workforce. ...