Sick Leave (Hansard, 20 June 1995)

§ Mr. Maclean

Information on the number of injuries sustained on duty is not held centrally. However, information has been kept since 1990 on days' sick leave taken due to assault and is shown in the table.

Total Number of Days Sick Leave Due to Assault
Forces	1990	1991	1992	1993
Avon and Somerset	1,402.00	840.00	868.00	906.00
Bedfordshire	582.00	831.00	633.00	341.00
Cambridgeshire	213.00	589.00	391.00	400.00
Cheshire	1,109.00	921.00	777.00	1,119.00
City of London	37.00	6.00	4.00	9.00
Cleveland	731.00	610.00	654.00	1,069.00
Cumbria	169.00	358.00	563.00	457.00
Derbyshire	648.00	1,135.00	1,331.00	1,502.00
Devon and Cornwall	865.00	986.00	423.00	712.00
Dorset	406.00	325.00	456.00	490.00
Durham	1,191.00	1,129.00	708.00	448.00
Dyfed-Powys	622.00	223.00	636.00	557.00
Essex	629.00	454.00	1,291.00	582.00
Gloucestershire	259.00	338.00	475.00	482.00
Greater Manchester	3,708.00	3,618.00	1,712.00	1,427.00
Gwent	330.00	126.00	317.00	342.00
Hampshire	2,170.00	930.00	1,030.00	1,535.00
Hertfordshire	650.00	640.00	403.00	214.00
Humberside	895.00	856.00	829.00	727.00
Kent	542.00	190.00	231.00	400.00
Lancashire	1,371.00	2,422.00	2,024.00	1,160.00
Leicestershire	644.00	678.00	1,320.00	469.00
Lincolnshire	670.00	758.00	639.00	709.00
Merseyside	4,086.00	4,264.00	2,560.00	2,825.00
Norfolk	381.00	157.00	405.00	256.00
North Wales	623.00	810.00	531.00	61.00
North Yorkshire	274.00	419.00	332.00	119.00
Northamptonshire	132.00	65.00	538.00	370.00
Northumbria	4,296.00	3,993.00	2,585.00	4,048.00
Nottinghamshire	1,302.00	1,081.00	1,160.00	1,161.00
South Wales	2,422.00	2,874.00	2,786.00	3,414.00
South Yorkshire	1,297.00	600.00	813.00	697.00
Staffordshire	1,120.00	1,096.00	622.00	345.00
Suffolk	443.00	333.00	440.00	122.00
Surrey	811.00	641.00	442.00	240.00
Sussex	1,026.00	1,708.00	1,083.00	738.00
Thames Valley	1,144.00	761.00	1,152.00	668.00
Warwickshire	438.00	275.00	498.00	375.00
West Mercia	487.00	405.00	598.00	504.00
West Midlands	2,992.00	1,279.00	1,979.00	2,054.19
West Yorkshire	2,455.00	2,880.00	2,396.00	2,017.00
Wiltshire	456.00	400.00	266.00	249.00
Provincial Total	46,028.00	43,004.00	38,901.00	36,320 69
Metropolitan Police	7,598.00	10,564.00	8,122.00	11,323.00
England and Wales Total	53,626.00	53,568.00	47,023.00	47,643 69

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Average number of days sick leave due to the assault
Forces	1990	1991	1992	1993
Avon and Somerset	12.41	7.43	10.59	10.53
Bedfordshire	11.41	21.87	22.61	13.12
Cambridgeshire	7.34	18.41	17.77	17.39
Cheshire	14.04	17.71	16.53	19.29
City of London	7.40	3.00	4.00	3.00
Cleveland	14.06	16.05	16.77	19.80
Cumbria	8.45	8.95	20.11	19.04
Derbyshire	12.00	30.68	21.47	32.65
Devon and Cornwall	18.02	12.97	8.13	10.79
Dorset	31.23	10.16	12.67	18.85
Durham	26.47	23.04	19.67	13.18
Dyfed-Powys	22.21	22.30	42.40	27.85
Essex	12.58	11.95	25.31	10.39
Gloucestershire	7.85	13.52	14.39	17.21
Greater Manchester	15.32	16.45	8.65	8.49
Gwent	10.65	12.60	19.81	21.38
Hampshire	19.38	16.61	25.12	17.64
Hertfordshire	12.50	26.67	13.90	9.30
Humberside	18.27	16.78	16.58	12.32
Kent	12.90	4.52	5.13	9.30
Lancashire	12.81	27.52	23.26	12.08
Leicestershire	12.63	12.56	32.20	8.53
Lincolnshire	13.14	15.79	13.04	12.66
Merseyside	25.86	30.68	20.48	20.62
Norfolk	10.03	5.61	11.25	7.11
North Wales	12.98	4.68	23.09	4.36
North Yorkshire	14.42	16.12	11.45	7.93
Northamptonshire	7.33	5.42	35.87	18.50
Northumbria	23.22	18.66	16.46	21.31
Nottinghamshire	25.53	15.23	14.50	20.73
South Wales	14.33	19.55	18.82	21.88
South Yorkshire	23.16	14.63	14.78	20.50
Staffordshire	14.55	17.68	14.81	9.34
Suffolk	19.26	11.10	19.13	6.78
Surrey	17.63	16.03	13.39	10.43
Sussex	16.29	33.49	21.66	17.57
Thames Valley	30.11	31.71	46.08	22.27
Warwickshire	15.10	10.58	22.64	14.42
West Mercia	11.33	11.25	17.09	14.82
West Midlands	17.00	13.61	3.50	13.97
West Yorkshire	43.07	24.20	18.02	13.36
Wiltshire	10.36	10.53	9.85	10.83
Provincial Total	17.08	16.89	14.35	15.51
Metropolitan Police	8.67	13.47	18.09	12.36
England and Wales Total	15.02	16.09	14.88	14.62