Injuries to Police Officers

  • Reference Number: 3167
  • Date released: 23 June 2011

Request

The three most common causes of injuries to police officers on duty in your force in the two most recent financial years for which you have figures (preferably 2010/11 and 2009/10).

For each of the three causes please could you tell me the number of occasions each one has occurred in each year.

- Could you also tell me the total number of injuries recorded by your force in both 2010/11 and 2009/10.

Response

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

  2009/10 2010/11
Assault 126 131
Slip/trip/fall 94 69
Manual Handling 55 35

Total No reported injuries:

2009/10 = 389

2010/11 = 356

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