Sick leave, mental health, PTSD 140/2025
FOI Reference: 140/25
Amended Request:
Between January 1st 2024 up to and including December 31st 2024:
1 How many police officers and staff working for your force have taken sick leave of any length due to any mental health condition?
3 How many police officers and staff working for your force have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Response 1:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
162 Police Officers and 101 Staff have been absent where their sickness absence has been categorised as being due to Psychological Disorders.
Sickness within Dyfed Powys Police is not split into the individual conditions – for example as Diabetic Condition, Gout or PTSD, but overarching categories such as Cardiac/Circulatory or Metabolic (Diabetic Condition), Musculoskeletal (Gout) or Psychological Disorder (PTSD) etc.
Within each of these categories there can be a number of other health concerns – for example within Psychological Disorders category, there are 54 mental health conditions listed.
Psychological Disorders category within Sickness Management System covers sickness absences for the following reasons:
P000 Psychological Disorders - Stress, depression, mental health & fatigue syndromes
Acute stress reaction
Addiction
Alcoholism
Alzheimer's disease
Anxiety disorders
Asthenia
Bereavement
Bipolar disorder
Burn out
Chemical dependency
Debility
Delusional disorder
Dementia
Depression
Drink or drug related absence
Drug abuse
Eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa)
Exhaustion
Fatigue
Fibromyalgia
Grief reaction
Hypomania
Insomnia
Lethargy
Manic / bipolar depression
ME
Mood disorder
Myalgic encephalomyelitis
Nervous breakdown
Nervous debility
Nervous disorder
Neurasthenia
Neurosis
Neuroticism
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Panic attacks
Panic disorder
Paranoia
Personal problems
Personality disorder
Phobias
Post natal depression
Post traumatic stress reaction
Post viral fatigue
Post viral syndrome
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Psychosis
PTSD
Relationship problems
Schizophrenia
Self-harm
Sleep problems
Stress
Response 3:
I can confirm that there is no information held by Dyfed-Powys Police due to the fact that this information is not recorded by Dyfed-Powys Police.
It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 21/02/25)
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