Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 12
12
Accepted
Disorder incidents had detrimental effect on police officers already facing heavy workloads and stress.
Conclusion
Police officers worked for long hours in extremely difficult circumstances during disorder incidents, many of them suffering injury and other trauma. Those that were re-deployed but did not face significant disorder will still have experienced fatigue and an increased workload. Police forces did their best to ameliorate the impact on officers but it is clear that the disorder has had a detrimental effect at a time when many officers were already struggling with heavy workloads, fatigue and stress. (Conclusion, Paragraph 47)
Government Response Summary
The Home Secretary has provided police forces in England and Wales with £28.3 million of funding to cover all of the additional costs of policing the disorder.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
The Home Secretary has agreed to provide police forces in England and Wales with £28.3 million of funding to cover all of the additional costs of policing the disorder. This funding was paid in full in May 2025.