Ill health retirement and injuries on duty

Response

For the past five years: (2020-2025)

1. The number of police officers who have started the Ill Health Retirement (IHR) process (i.e., those referred to Occupational Health for IHR consideration).

51

2. The number of officers who have retired on ill-health grounds as a result of the IHR process.

51

As requested below in question 12, this has been broken down by department:

Department	Officers retired on ill health grounds (January 2020 – June 2025)
Neighbourhood and Partnership	12
Collaborations	3
Response	17
Investigations	8
Enabling Services	5
Ops Support	6

3. The number of officers who have submitted Injury on Duty (IOD) claims under the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006.

31 (this includes 8 for whom the process is not yet complete)

4. The number of officers whose IOD claims were successful.

10

5. The number of officers whose IOD claims were unsuccessful.

13

6. A breakdown of the IOD banding decisions for successful claims, (bands 1-4 as defined by PIBR 2006)

Band	Total
1	5
2	3
3	1
4	1

7. A copy of the force’s policy on the IOD process (not the IHR, sickness, Attendance Management or similar policy, but specifically how the force manages IOD claims after an officer has left).

No information is held in relation to this question. We do not have a current policy for IOD Processing.

8. The length of time taken to process each IOD claim.

Length of time taken (months)	Number of claims
3	1
7	4
8	3
11	4
12	2
13	3
14	2
16	1
22	1
22	1
32	1

9. Average time to process IOD claims.

12.69 months

Please note that some of these cases will have been impacted by Covid-related delays.

10. The resources/personnel/team/department allocated to managing IOD claims (including the number of personnel assigned).

The resources allocated to managing IOD claims are between one and two individuals at any one time.

11. Whether the force conducts any follow-up or impact assessments to understand the long-term effects of the process on officers who have retired due to IOD.

Reviews are not currently undertaken.

12. Please can the officers who retire on ill health (IHR) and successful IOD awards be broken down by borough, district, or department.

In relation to IHR, the requested breakdown has been provided above as part of the response to question 2.

In relation to IOD awards, I can confirm that the 10 successful awards in the timeframe January 2020 – June 2025 were for individuals in the following departments: Response; Operational Support; Investigations; Enabling Services.

Due to the likelihood of identification given the low numbers involved, a full breakdown has been withheld under the following exemption:

• Section 40(2) – Personal Information.

Section 40 is a class based absolute exemption and there is no requirement to consider the public interest in this case.

Any information to which a request relates is exempt if it constitutes personal data and would contravene any of the data protection principles. Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified directly from the information, or identifiable indirectly in combination with other available information.

To disclose the information would significantly increase the risk of individuals being identified, which would breach principle 1 (lawfulness, fairness and transparency) of the Data Protection Act 2018.

This serves as a partial refusal notice under section 17(1) of the FOI Act.