We examine ill-health retirement of police officers in England and Wales between 2002-3 and 2009-10. Differences in ill …-health retirement rates across forces are statistically related to area-specific stresses of policing and force-specific differences in …-health retirement from central government to local police authorities- impacted on the level of ill-health retirement, especially among …

This paper analyses retirement expectations and outcomes using the two waves of the UK Retirement Survey, undertaken in … individuals tend to report their most likely retirement date. About half of the sample retired when they expected. Men tend to … face greater uncertainty over their future retirement date. We provide evidence to support this hypothesis. Finally, we …