MPS Police Officers suspended on full pay from 2019 to 2021

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.023285

I note you seek access to the following information:

How many Metropolitan Police Officers were suspended on full pay in the calendar years 2019, 2020 and 2021?

Clarifications -

The MPS wrote advising that to provide data by calendar year would exceed 18 hours. You were happy to receive the data by financial year instead.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Year	Present	Previous	Total Suspended
April 2019 to March 2020	6	28	34
April 2020 to March 2021	17	26	43
April 2021 to February 2022	35	28	63

NOTE: The column marked ‘Present’ is referring to people who were suspended that year and are still presently suspended.
The column marked ‘Previous’ is referring to people suspended in that year and are no longer (through the suspension reaching a conclusion).