Police: Mental Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help improve the mental health of police officers.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
This Government is committed to supporting the mental and physical wellbeing of all our police.
This includes providing ongoing funding to the National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS), which provides evidence-based guidance, advice, tools and resources which can be accessed by forces. This helps Chief Constables in their duty to ensure the wellbeing of their workforce. In particular, the Service is helping forces to identify where there is most risk of impacts on mental health, and developing work around building resilience, as well as putting in place support for those who need it in response to traumatic events.
The Police Covenant has already helped deliver pre-deployment mental health training for new recruits and improved occupational health standards for officers in service.
A new National Police Health and Wellbeing Strategy was launched in June 2025 by NPWS. Workforce Prioritisation Guidance has been published alongside this, which provides clarity and guidance to forces on how to implement and invest in evidence-based and scalable health and wellbeing solutions locally.
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