Police officer sick leave 859/2025
FOI Reference: 859/2025
Request:
1. How many police officers are on stress, stress-related or mental health leave?
2. How many have been on leave for more than 7 days?
3. How many have been on leave for more than two weeks?
4. How many have been on leave for more than one month?
5. What is the longest a police officer (currently on the leave) - has been on this type of leave?
Response 1:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
As at 21st August 2025, 36 police officers are absent 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:
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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 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 hold the information requested, as outlined below.
As at 21st August 2025, 34 police officers have been absent due to psychological disorders for more than 7 days.
Response 3:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
As at 21st August 2025, 31 police officers have been absent due to psychological disorders for more than two weeks.
Response 4:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
As at 21st August 2025, 27 police officers have been absent due to psychological disorders for more than one month.
Response 5:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
914 days as at 21st August 2025.
Please note that this absence was not solely due to psychological disorders.
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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 27/08/2025)
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