The available data are for the amount of police officer working time lost to sickness. Breakdowns for the type of sickness are not collected centrally. Data are available for 2002-03 onwards.
Police Officer sickness absence data for 2002-03 onwards are available on the Home Office website, located at:
http://www.police.homeoffice.gov.uk/performance-and-measurement/performance-assessment/
For 2002-03 and 2003-04, the data are given in the 2003-04 Police Performance Monitoring report, in the form of police officer days lost per person per year.
For 2004-05 onwards, the data are given in the annual Police Performance Assessment reports, in the form of average number of police officer hours lost per person per year.