FOI 0279-2025/26 Mental Health Incidents

Request
Q1. How many mental health incidents did your service respond to in these years? Please also indicate what percentage of total incidents were mental health incidents if possible: 

a) 2020
b) 2021
c) 2022
d) 2023
e) 2024

Q2. Please briefly outline any training your staff receive on the below areas, including what the training covers and the named training provider if externally delivered: 

a) Suicide prevention
b) Suicide postvention

Q3. If there is suicide prevention training in place, is it currently mandatory for all staff? If the training is not mandatory, please indicate which staff it is offered to. 

Q4. If there is suicide prevention training in place, please indicate how many staff members received training in 2024 in:

a) Number of total staff who received training
b) Percentage of total staff who received training

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Q1. Please see the table below showing the number of mental health incidents responded to by North Yorkshire Police in the period 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2024. Percentages are not held.

Q2. The following training has been delivered in relation to suicide prevention and suicide postvention:

• ASK - ASSESSING SUICIDE IN KIDS, delivered by Mental Health Learning
• APPLIED SUICIDE INTERVENTION SKILLS TRAINING, delivered by City of York Council

Q3. This training is not mandatory to all officers and staff. Those who attended the training were from Safeguarding Domestic Abuse, Neighbourhood Policing Scarborough/Ryedale, Local Policing Support, OCU, PDU HQ, Neighbourhood Policing Harrogate Outer and CROMU.

Q4. Nil for 2024.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.