2025/28145 - Mental Health Absences Police and staff 2022 to 2024
REQUEST
- How many police officers and members of staff have taken at least one day off work due to mental health issues in the past three years? (Broken down by calendar years: 2022, 2023, 2024)
1a. Could these issues be broken down into specific types of mental conditions such as stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc.? (Broken down by years: 2022, 2023, 2024)
1b) Of those who had taken time off due to mental health, how many subsequently left the force? (Broken down by years: 2022, 2023, 2024)
2.Can you provide an estimated cost of absences (of any kind, including for mental health) to the force in the last three years? (Broken down by years: 2022, 2023, 2024)
29.01.25 QUERY TO REQUESTOR
- How many police officers and members of staff have taken at least one day off work due to mental health issues in the past three years? (Broken down by calendar years: 2022, 2023, 2024)
Query
If a person is off in one year and this sickness continues into the next year does the requestor want the individual counted in each year?
If an individual takes more than one period of sickness in a year for mental health does the requestor want the individual counted for each sick period in that year or just once?
1a. Could these issues be broken down into specific types of mental conditions such as stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc.? (Broken down by years: 2022, 2023, 2024)
Query
This will be determined with the answers to the queries above.
1b) Of those who had taken time off due to mental health, how many subsequently left the force? (Broken down by years: 2022, 2023, 2024)
Query
If an individual was sick due to Mental Health and then left does it matter what/when the individual left, for example if an individual took sick in 2022 and then the Force in 2025 does this need to be counted or does the requestor only want to know if an individual was sick in 2022 and then left in
29.01.25 Requestor Responds
Query 1. Yes please could you count the individuals in each year and each sick period in a year.
Query 2. You can just count individuals who logged mental health absences and left in the same year.