Mental health sick days 567/2024
FOI Reference: 567/2024
Request:
- What is the total number of sick days taken off by police officers due to mental health reasons, e.g. anxiety, stress, depression or other psychiatric illness. I would like this information to be provided for each of the last five calendar years as follows: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
- Please could you also provide the proportion of total sick days taken off due to mental health reasons in each of those years (e.g. 40%).
Response 1:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
2019: 5277 days lost due to psychological disorders
2020: 6505 days lost due to psychological disorders
2021: 8080 days lost due to psychological disorders
2022: 7562 days lost due to psychological disorders
2023: 8075 days lost due to psychological disorders
Please note that the headcount of police officers has increased during the reporting period and that these figures are determined by how the absences have been categorised when recorded on the system. We are aware that absences may have been initially categorised differently, for example under the Miscellaneous but is later known to develop into stress related.
Please be advised that the Psychological Disorders category within the Sickness Management System covers sickness absences for the following reasons:
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P000 Psychological Disorders - Stress, depression, mental health & fatigue syndromes |
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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 abuseDrug 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
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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 2:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does not hold the information requested, as the requested data isn’t recorded in such a format.
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 17/06/2024)