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