Officer sickness - 710/19

Date Responded 19 June 2019

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

Please provide the total amount of days taken off work by officers due to mental health-related illnesses or conditions broken down by financial year from 2014-19
In addition, please also provide the number of officers that have taken time off work due to mental health-related illnesses or conditions broken down by the type of illness (i.e. stress, anxiety, depression) and by financial year from 2014-19

In Response:

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

Absence Reason - Mental Health Year	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19
Operational Days Lost (Police Officers)	7305	6627	8104	7212	8532

Absence Reason - Mental Health Year	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19
I1 Anxiety	41	27	46	44	47
I3 Depression	32	38	47	41	48
I4 Drug or alcohol problems (inc. painkillers or tranquilisers)	0	2	1	0	1
I5 Other mental health (inc. bipolar, schizophrenia, hypomania)	4	2	5	10	6
I6 Post Traumatic Stress	6	11	9	11	5
I7 Stress	126	129	110	94	123
Total Police Officers	209	209	218	200	230

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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