Police officer & staff suicides 639/2025

FOI Reference: 639/2025

Request:

Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please tell me for the following years - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (as of June 23rd 2025):

• The total number of serving and former police officers and staff from your force who have died by suspected suicide
• The total number of serving and former police officers and staff from your force who have died by suspected suicide - with the death recorded during or after misconduct proceedings

Can I request that this information is:

• Broken down clearly by individual year
• Broken down by whether the individuals were either serving or former officers and staff

Response:

I can confirm that there is no information held as we only record when a person has died, we do not record whether their death is due to suicide.                                   

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 21/07/2025)