FOI Police Officer Mental Health (0610-2024/25)
Request
Q1. How many officers and staff working for your force are currently waiting for mental health treatment? Please list the figures for police officers and staff separately.
Q2. What is the current average waiting time for an officer working for your force to see a mental health professional in Occupational Health (not a nurse or other staff member). Please also provide the annual average waiting time every year since January 1st 2020. As the current year is not finished please provide the 2024 average to date.
Q3. Does your police force keep a record of the number of officers and staff who die by suicide? If yes, please provide the total number that have died as a result of suicide every year since January 1st 2020, broken up into officers and staff. As the current year is not finished please provide the 2024 total to date, again broken up into officers and staff.
Q4. How much money has been spent by your force on mental health provision, every year since January 1st 2020? As the current year is not finished please provide the 2024 total to date and the end of year estimated spend.
Q5. How many mental health trauma specialists does your force currently employ? Also, broken down into separate years, how many mental health trauma specialists has your force employed since January 1st 2020?
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Decision
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Q1. None. Appointments are booked in as soon as a referral is received which is usually within 4 – 6 weeks.
Q2. Please see below table showing the average waiting time.
|
Year |
Average waiting time |
|
2024 (to date) |
4 weeks |
|
2023 |
3 weeks |
|
2022 |
2.5 weeks |
|
2021 |
Information not held |
|
2020 |
Information not held |
Q3. Information not held.
Q4. Please see table below showing the amount spent on mental health provision since 1 January 2020.
|
Financial Year |
Spend (£) |
Notes |
|
2019-20 |
43,304 |
From 1 January 2020 |
|
2020-21 |
202,063 |
|
|
2021-22 |
174,711 |
|
|
2022-23 |
227,123 |
|
|
2023-24 |
249,728 |
|
|
2024-25 (Apr-Oct) |
156,937 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2024-25 |
111,082 |
Projected Nov 2024 to Mar 2025 based on current costs |
Q5. Currently, North Yorkshire Police employs 4.49 (FTE) counsellors and a 0.81 (FTE) Lead Counsellor who are all trained in trauma and EMDR therapy. Data as to the number of mental health trauma specialists employed since 2020 is not held.
Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.