FOI 12258
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 12258
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 23rd July 2019. Please find below the response to your request:
(With the following information, please provide in the calendar year if possible, but I’ll accept Financial Year if that’s not possible).
Q – How many of your staff/officers have received counselling after dealing with a case involving child abuse in this last year and every year for the past 5 years?
Reply:-
No specific recorded information held. West Mercia Police do not collate this information.
Q – How much has providing a counselling service cost the service in the last year and every year for the past 5 years?
Reply:-
The following is a West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police Alliance spend against the ‘counselling’ code – it is not possible to break this down into West Mercia Police only spend.
2014/15 £53.9k
2015/16 £83.3k
2016/17 £147.4k
2017/18 £195k
2018/19 £242k
Q - How many of your staff/officers have been signed off work linked to working on cases involving child abuse in the last year and every year for the past 5 years?
Reply:-
No specific recorded information held. West Mercia Police do not hold data that shows the correlation between sickness absence and cases worked on.