Officer mental health sickness 133/2022

FOI Reference: 133/2022

Request:

I would like to know 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: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021  

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:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total no of sick days taken off by police officers due to Psychological Disorders	5801 days	5188 days	4034 days	4628 days	5919 days
Proportion of total sick days due to mental health reasons	39.87%	40.91%	33.03%	39.44%	45.97%

 

Additional Notes: Psychological Disorders category within Sickness Management System covers sickness absences for the following reasons:

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

Please note: 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.

                                                                                                           

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 09/03/2022)