Police: Sick Leave

(asked on 19th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have (a) taken time off work and (b) accessed mental health support after responding to a violent incident in the last two years.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 27th June 2019

The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.

The Home Office collects information on the number of police officers on sick absence as at 31st March each year.

However, these data do not include the reason for the sickness absence therefore it is not possible from data held centrally to identify those on sick absence after responding to a violent incident

Information on sickness absence data are published in the annual ‘Police work-force’ statistical bulletin, available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales


The Home Office does not hold information on the number of police officers who have accessed mental health support.

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