FOI 217180
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 217180
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 15th December 2022. Please find below the response to your request:
Please may you provide me with:
1. The total number of FTE sick days taken off by police officers where mental health was provided as the reason, by financial year, since 2010.
2. The total number of FTE sick days taken by all staff where mental health was provided as the reason, by financial year, since 2010.
3. The total number of police officers in your force, by financial year, since 2010.
Reply
West Mercia Police holds some of the information you have requested, we do not hold data as far back as 2010 for questions 1 and 2.
- The total number of FTE sick days taken off by police officers where mental health was provided as the reason, by financial year, since 2010.
|
Reason |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
2015-16 |
2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 |
2019-20 |
2020-21 |
2021-22 |
|
|
Psychological Disorder |
Anxiety State |
329.71 |
542.43 |
1226.57 |
839.71 |
695.56 |
1349.14 |
1593.14 |
1086.43 |
1287.86 |
|
|
Debility |
105.71 |
57.86 |
5.00 |
|
18.57 |
127.79 |
|
|
1.00 |
|
|
Depression |
1178.77 |
872.86 |
517.00 |
606.71 |
765.40 |
550.86 |
680.71 |
872.14 |
624.43 |
|
|
Depression/Anxiety |
896.14 |
1023.29 |
933.14 |
774.43 |
1483.88 |
574.71 |
956.43 |
1097.43 |
907.03 |
|
|
Hyper-Tension, Stress, Depress |
102.00 |
60.43 |
206.14 |
185.71 |
98.57 |
|
9.00 |
|
|
|
|
Stress |
1483.07 |
2560.86 |
1958.52 |
2663.57 |
3622.12 |
3434.00 |
4040.71 |
3064.71 |
3433.01 |
|
|
Stress Related Illness |
2323.29 |
1035.43 |
1227.93 |
1766.98 |
1206.60 |
1067.14 |
1463.00 |
1359.00 |
1588.14 |
|
Psychological Disorder Total |
|
6418.69 |
6153.14 |
6074.30 |
6837.11 |
7890.72 |
7103.64 |
8743.00 |
7479.71 |
7841.46 |
|
Officer FTE |
|
1932.94 |
1992.82 |
2057.02 |
2040.86 |
1952.69 |
1959.49 |
2192.12 |
2263.13 |
2331.79 |
|
% Days Lost |
|
0.082% |
0.089% |
0.093% |
0.082% |
0.068% |
0.076% |
0.069% |
0.083% |
0.081% |
- The total number of FTE sick days taken by all staff where mental health was provided as the reason, by financial year, since 2010.
|
Reason |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
2015-16 |
2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 |
2019-20 |
2020-21 |
2021-22 |
|
|
Psychological Disorder |
Anxiety State |
633.91 |
899.34 |
437.00 |
252.29 |
933.94 |
590.41 |
647.00 |
1170.28 |
2539.50 |
|
|
Debility |
20.00 |
960.18 |
28.00 |
1.00 |
18.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depression |
944.96 |
554.03 |
809.43 |
134.72 |
164.29 |
552.33 |
801.04 |
308.47 |
698.79 |
|
|
Depression/Anxiety |
304.00 |
270.86 |
776.44 |
792.43 |
1109.43 |
610.86 |
484.43 |
555.51 |
363.14 |
|
|
Hyper-Tension, Stress, Depress |
111.86 |
1454.43 |
73.90 |
78.57 |
78.00 |
|
|
|
5.00 |
|
|
Stress |
560.79 |
763.75 |
1519.86 |
1474.29 |
1416.71 |
1503.53 |
2391.27 |
1613.15 |
2952.79 |
|
|
Stress Related Illness |
951.50 |
4902.59 |
822.04 |
351.18 |
1192.17 |
686.19 |
1062.47 |
1044.36 |
1335.05 |
|
Psychological Disorder Total |
|
3527.01 |
4902.59 |
4466.68 |
3089.47 |
4912.54 |
3943.31 |
5386.21 |
4691.76 |
7894.26 |
|
Staff FTE |
|
1628.63 |
1643.99 |
1758.35 |
1818.54 |
1673.83 |
1742.50 |
1820.36 |
1860.39 |
1885.26 |
|
% Days Lost |
|
0.126% |
0.092% |
0.108% |
0.161% |
0.093% |
0.121% |
0.093% |
0.109% |
0.065% |
The total number of police officers in your force, by financial year, since 2010.
Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires West Mercia Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.
The exemption applicable to the information is:
Sec 21(1) Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means
This is an Absolute, class based exemption.
The information that you require is already available
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-open-data-tables