Sick days taken off by police officers due to mental health reasons from 2017 to 2021

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.023267

I note you seek access to the following information:

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%).

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Proportions	19.4%	16.1%	20.5%	22.5%	19.9%
Days	72,938	59,264	78,178	69,187	73,595