MORE THAN 14,400 sick days were taken by North Yorkshire Police officers in 2012/13, new figures have shown.

Most of the sick days taken by police officers in that time were due to anxiety, depression and stress, according to the statistics, released under the Freedom Of Information Act.

Officers spent 14,469 days absent from duty due to sickness, up from 14,027 the previous year and 9,941 in 2010/11 – a rise of 46 per cent in two years.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.