Surge in police sickness costs taxpayer £90m a year / The Times, 23 October 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4995725.ece
"Police forces lost more than one million days to long-term sick leave last year at a record cost of nearly £90 million, an investigation by The Times has found. The cost has soared by more than 20 per cent in the past five years despite a drive within the police to reduce prolonged sick absences. Freedom of information requests to the 43 forces in England and Wales revealed that stress, depression, back pain and other musculo-skeletal disorders are mainly responsible."