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Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/24/002669/P
Version Date: 07/01/2025
The Alliance Resourcing & Development Department have provided the following information.
Please note these figures were taken from snapshots as at the last day of each quarter within the relevant year (31st March, 30th June, etc) as they were recorded on the system at those times. Any individuals who were on extended leave break or External Secondment at those times were excluded from the data.
Q1: Since January 1st 2020, how many police officers and staff working for your force have taken sick leave of any length due to PTSD, anxiety, stress, depression, or any other mental health condition? Please list the figures for police officers and staff separately and also provide the numbers broken up into yearly totals.
Q2: Since January 1st 2020, how many police officers and staff working for your force have taken sick leave of any length due to the suspected symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Please list the figures for police officers and staff separately and also provide the numbers broken up into yearly totals. As the current year is not finished please provide the 2024 total to date.
Individuals Absent due to Mental Health |
||||||||||
Resource Type |
2020 |
Due to PTSD |
2021 |
Due to PTSD |
2022 |
Due to PTSD |
2023 |
Due to PTSD |
2024 |
Due to PTSD |
Dorset Officer |
102 |
3 |
113 |
7 |
161 |
8 |
211 |
17 |
181 |
21 |
Dorset Staff |
130 |
3 |
144 |
2 |
147 |
3 |
170 |
6 |
129 |
1 |
Q4: Since January 1st 2020, how many work days have police officers and staff working for your force missed due to the suspected or diagnosed symptoms of PTSD? Please list the figures for police officers and staff separately and also provide the numbers broken up into yearly totals. As the current year is not finished please provide the 2024 total to date.
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
Dorset Officer |
230.71 |
547.14 |
671.43 |
1202.43 |
1477.14 |
Dorset Staff |
259.43 |
23.00 |
53.57 |
271.00 |
195.71 |
Please be advised that the data within the snapshots does not have accurate working days lost in it, therefore any period of sickness that lasted longer than 5 calendar days has had a 5/7ths formula added to determine working days lost as accurately as possible (e.g. if the sickness period lasted 6 calendar days, 6 x 5/7ths = 4.29 working days lost). This is done to account for any potential weekends occurring within the sickness period, due to current system reporting limitations. This might not be 100% accurate as the data also does not take into account part time workers, flexible working patterns, etc. but it is how we are currently approaching our sickness data for working days lost for our reporting.
In addition, it should be noted that the reasons for these Mental Health absences may not necessarily be work-related and could in fact be due to personal factors outside of work.