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FOI 0289-2025/26 Officer Suicide

Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please tell me for the following years - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (as of June 23rd 2025):

Q1. The total number of serving and former police officers and staff from your force who have died by suspected suicide. 

Q2. The total number of serving and former police officers and staff from your force who have died by suspected suicide - with the death recorded during or after misconduct proceedings. 

Can I request that this information is:  

  • Broken down clearly by individual year
  • Broken down by whether the individuals were either serving or former officers and staff

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information
To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police.

Decision
I have today decided to disclose the following information to you.

Q1 & 2. Officer suicide is not recorded. The cause of death is recorded by the coroner and therefore, unless the cause of death was identified by family members then we would not hold this information.

However, in order to assist, national data on recorded suicides are broken down by profession and published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) using the below link:

Deaths - Office for National Statistics

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.