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MEDICAL RETIREMENTS (931A/22)

Request

For 2019

  1. The number of individual police officers within your force to have requested medical retirement
  2. The number of individual police officers within your force to have requested medical retirement on mental health grounds
  3. A breakdown of the specific mental health issues cited as reasons for requested medical retirement (including depression, anxiety, PTSD, stress… etc).

For 2020

  1. The number of individual police officers within your force to have requested medical retirement
  2. The number of individual police officers within your force to have requested medical retirement on mental health grounds
  3. A breakdown of the specific mental health issues cited as reasons forrequested medical retirement (including depression, anxiety, PTSD, stress… etc).

For 2021

  1. The number of individual police officers within your force to have requested medical retirement
  2. The number of individual police officers within your force to have requested medical retirement on mental health grounds
  3. A breakdown of the specific mental health issues cited as reasons for requested medical retirement (including depression, anxiety, PTSD, stress… etc).

 

 

Response

2019

  • A) 30 x applications
  • B) 18 x included mental health
  • C) NB. in a number of applications, officers will have multiple mental health conditions: –
  • Depression – 10
  • Anxiety – 8
  • PTSD – 11
  • Other – neurological disorder and adjustment disorder

 

 

2020

  • A) 25 x applications
  • B) 11 x included mental health
  • C) NB. in a number of applications, officers will have multiple mental health conditions: –
  • Depression – 8
  • Anxiety – 6
  • PTSD – 4

 

 

2021

  • A) 36 x applications
  • B) 26 x included mental health
  • C) NB. in a number of applications, officers will have multiple mental health conditions: –
  • Depression – 25
  • Anxiety – 17
  • PTSD – 16

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are considered when interpreting those data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be considered when those data are used.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

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