Home Department written question – answered at on 22 July 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many days sick leave were taken by (a) police constables, (b) sergeants, (c) inspectors, (d) police community support officers and (e) support staff in each police force in England and Wales in the latest period for which figures are available.
The available data are provided in the following table. The latest available period is the financial year 2008-09. Figures are collected centrally as hours lost to sickness and are only broken down in to 'police officers' and 'all police staff'.
Total contracted hours lost to sickness, by police force, 2008-09( 1, 2, 3) | ||
Number | ||
All police staff | Police officers | |
Avon and Somerset | 260,928 | 317,150 |
Bedfordshire | 70,132 | 90,826 |
Cambridgeshire | 88,268 | 116,197 |
Cheshire | 111,190 | 113,254 |
Cleveland | 68,212 | 101,653 |
Cumbria | 78,621 | 83,958 |
Derbyshire | 82,072 | 134,960 |
Devon and Cornwall | 199,253 | 257,557 |
Dorset | 91,909 | 107,349 |
Durham | 66,271 | 109,677 |
Dyfed-Powys | 37,784 | 57,403 |
Essex | 213,384 | 246,184 |
Gloucestershire | 73,215 | 103,205 |
Greater Manchester | 353,729 | 524,989 |
Gwent | 83,161 | 147,317 |
Hampshire | 196,680 | 242,568 |
Hertfordshire | 151,945 | 176,399 |
Humberside | 110,427 | 110,997 |
Kent | 192,391 | 243,886 |
Lancashire | 155,294 | 188,447 |
Leicestershire | 98,886 | 117,227 |
Lincolnshire | 77,665 | 95,704 |
London, City of | 23,909 | 36,197 |
Merseyside | 197,316 | 301,056 |
Metropolitan Police | 1,208,950 | 1,727,755 |
Norfolk | 95,796 | 123,653 |
Northamptonshire | 74,065 | 62,458 |
Northumbria | 147,453 | 268,203 |
North Wales | 63,209 | 106,006 |
North Yorkshire | 95,973 | 123,104 |
Nottinghamshire | 155,372 | 174,299 |
South Wales | 134,192 | 293,434 |
South Yorkshire | 213,912 | 221,364 |
Staffordshire | 131,584 | 189,389 |
Suffolk | - | - |
Surrey | 134,050 | 122,932 |
Sussex | 217,044 | 229,711 |
Thames Valley | 220,804 | 266,064 |
Warwickshire | 63,226 | 100,394 |
West Mercia | 160,629 | 168,618 |
West Midlands | 266,137 | 464,709 |
West Yorkshire | 289,576 | 403,193 |
Wiltshire | 93,387 | 108,914 |
(1) Figures are provisional and have not been verified by forces. (2) Figures on sickness absence are collected as hours lost. (3) Figures are only collected centrally broken down in to 'police officers' and 'all police staff. Therefore no further rank breakdowns can be provided. |
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