Sick Leave and Occupational Health Referrals 2019 to 2021

Keywords

Financial, Years, Full-Time, Full, Time, Equivalent, FTE, Police, Officers, Staff, Sick, Leave, Less, Than, Twenty-Eight, 28, Days, More, Instances, Absent, Psychological, Illness, Stress, Related, Conditions, Occupational, Health, Referrals.

Publication Number

PUB 1272

FOI Reference Number

16167

Request Title

Sickness Stress Leave & Occupational Health Referrals

Date Range

2019 to 2021

Information Requested

For the years 2019/20 and 2020/21 please provide:

1. FTE figures for (i) police officers and (ii) police staff in your force.

2. Instances of police officers (FTE)/police staff (FTE) on sick leave of less than 28 days.

3. Number of police officers (FTE)/police staff (FTE) that have taken sick leave of less than 28 days.

4. Instances of police officers (FTE)/police staff (FTE) on sick leave of more than 28 days.

5. Number of police officers (FTE)/police staff (FTE) that have taken sick leave of more than 28 days.

6. Instances of police officers (FTE)/police staff (FTE) absent through psychological illness and stress related conditions.

7. Number of police officers (FTE)/police staff (FTE) absent taking psychological disorder and stress related absence.

8. Number of occupational health referrals for (i) police officers and (ii) police staff.

Disclosure with Exemptions

Full Disclosure

Information Correct as at

08 October 2021

Date of Disclosure

22 October 2021

Related Documents/Links

General Police workforce statistics can be found via the below link, which you may find of interest:

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

FOI 16167 Response

Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:

Caveats: 

The data is correct as at 08 October 2021.

Please note, Headcount data has been provided to respond to this request due to the fact that all our Sickness Reporting is done in Headcount and not Full-Time Equivalent (FTE).

Each person is only counted once (per Financial Year), regardless of the number of separate sickness instances that person had in a single Financial Year.

1. FTE figures for (i) Police Officers and (ii) Police Staff in your force.

2019/20

Employee Group	Average Headcount During FY
Officers	3262.5
Staff (including PCSOs)	2355.0
Total	5617.5

2020/21

Employee Group	Average Headcount During FY
Officers	3432.5
Staff (including PCSOs)	2419.0
Total	5851.5

2. Instances of Police Officers (FTE)/Police Staff (FTE) on sick leave of less than 28 days.

The data covers less than and equal to 28 days.

2019/20

Employee Group	Total Instances (Headcount)
Officers	3392
Staff (including PCSOs)	3113
Total	6505

2020/21

Employee Group	Total Instances (Headcount)
Officers	2238
Staff (including PCSOs)	1740
Total	3978

3. Number of Police Officers (FTE)/Police Staff (FTE) that have taken sick leave of less than 28 days.

The data covers less than and equal to 28 days.  Each person is only counted once (per Financial Year), regardless of the number of separate sickness instances that person had in a single Financial Year.

2019/20

Employee Group	Total Officers/Staff (Headcount)
Officers	1898
Staff (including PCSOs)	1497
Total	3395

2020/21

Employee Group	Total Officers/Staff (Headcount)
Officers	1409
Staff (including PCSOs)	1035
Total	2444

4. Instances of Police Officers (FTE)/Police Staff (FTE) on sick leave of more than 28 days.

2019/20

Employee Group	Total Instances (Headcount)
Officers	368
Staff (including PCSOs)	295
Total	663

2020/21

Employee Group	Total Instances (Headcount)
Officers	299
Staff (including PCSOs)	242
Total	541

5. Number of Police Officers (FTE)/Police Staff (FTE) that have taken sick leave of more than 28 days.

Each person is only counted once (per Financial Year), regardless of the number of separate sickness instances that person had in a single Financial Year.

2019/20

Employee Group	Total Officers/Staff (Headcount)
Officers	343
Staff (including PCSOs)	269
Total	612

2020/21

Employee Group	Total Officers/Staff (Headcount)
Officers	279
Staff (including PCSOs)	225
Total	504

6. Instances of Police Officers (FTE)/Police Staff (FTE) absent through psychological illness and stress related conditions.

2019/20

Employee Group	Total Instances (Headcount)
Officers	337
Staff (including PCSOs)	305
Total	642

2020/21

Employee Group	Total Instances (Headcount)
Officers	281
Staff (including PCSOs)	235
Total	516

7. Number of Police Officers (FTE)/Police Staff (FTE) absent taking psychological disorder and stress related absence.

Each person is only counted once (per Financial Year), regardless of the number of separate sickness instances that person had in a single Financial Year.

2019/20

Employee Group	Total Officers/Staff (Headcount)
Officers	291
Staff (including PCSOs)	244
Total	535

2020/21

Employee Group	Total Officers/Staff (Headcount)
Officers	251
Staff (including PCSOs)	201
Total	452

8. Number of occupational health referrals for (i) Police Officers and (ii) Police Staff.

2019/20

Employee Group	Number of Referrals
Officers	1212
Staff (including PCSOs)	533
Total	1745

2020/21

Employee Group	Number of Referrals
Officers	1164
Staff (including PCSOs)	535
Total	1699

Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete.  However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries.  Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies.  Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.