WEST AUSSIE POLICE SUICIDE RATE | The highest in the country

By combining data from the National Coronial Information System, news reports and other sources, the union said it had created one of the largest collections of information about Australian police officer suicide.

The research found a total of 123 officers had taken their lives since 2000, with most of them occurring since 2015.

Rates of suicide had more than doubled from 5.9 deaths per 100,000 serving officers at the turn of the millennium to 14 per 100,000 in 2022.

The union said its research also found that while suicide rates in the general population had remained relatively stable between 2000 and 2022, the same was not true for police officers.

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