The objective of this investigation was to establish a demographic profile of retired police officers from Colombia in the period of 2008 to 2018. This study addressed the issue of health as an explanatory basis for the phenomenon of early retirement.The methodology used was quantitative, with an analytical cross-sectional study design which is initiated an early retirement process variables such as age, gender, marital status, police status, police-grade, work area, unit, year and month of retirement. As a dependent variable, the type of withdrawal was taken. The results analyzed data were 51,567 police officers, of whom 3,395 were women and 48,172 were men.
