FOI date
08/2023
FOI reference
FOI 1750940/23

We received a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA):

This email is a freedom of information request relating to data held on the number of employees (both police officers and police staff) registered as disabled within your police service (related to either physical or mental disability), as defined by your internal policy on this matter. In this regard, please can you supply the following data: 
 
1. Number of police officers registered with a disability in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018.  
2. Number of police staff registered with a disability in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
 

Our Response:

Please see the below table for the requested information. To note, these figures represent all employees that have notified West Yorkshire Police of a disability. 

West Yorkshire Police Employees with a Disability, 2018 – 2022.

Year    Officer    Staff    Total
2018    244        339      583
2019    293        391      684
2020    323        434      757
2021    383        482      865
2022    487        561      1048