MPS employees registered as disabled

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.23.031985

I note you seek access to the following information:

This is a request relating to data held on the number of employees (both police officers and police staff) registered as disabled within your police service (related to either physical or mental disability), as defined by your internal policy on this matter. In this regard, please can you supply the following data:

1. Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2022.
2. Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2022.

3. Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2021.
4. Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2021.

5. Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2020.
6. Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2020.

7. Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2019.
8. Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2019.

9. Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2018.
10. Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2018.

Decision

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

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Please note that the information provided below is all optional to self-declare as having a disability, so we cannot be confident that the numbers are an accurate representation of the MPS as a whole.

Also please note that people do not need to ‘register’ their disability in the Met, it is optional for them to self-declare.

Q1 - Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2022.

571

Q2 - Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2022.

229

Q3 - Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2021.

568

Q4 - Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2021.

228

There is no information held for the below questions.

Q5 - Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2020.
Q6 - Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2020.

Q7 - Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2019.
Q8 - Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2019.

Q9 - Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2018.
Q10 - Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2018.