Complaints - 226/18

Date Responded 10 April 2018

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

Please send me the following information, broken down year by year for the period between 2008 and 2017:

1. number of formal complaints/grievances made by staff [unless stated otherwise, throughout the request, ‘staff’ should include sworn officers, police support staff, PCSOs, and volunteers] against the constabulary

2. number of formal complaints/grievances made by female BAME staff against the constabulary

3. In terms of data in relation to question 2, please indicate the number of these complaints/grievances that related to:

Workplace bullying

Race discrimination or harassment

Sex discrimination or harassment

Religious discrimination or harassment

Age discrimination or harassment

Disability discrimination or harassment

4. number of complaints / grievance raised by BAME female members of staff that were resolved through internal management/HR or disciplinary procedures

5. number of complaints / grievance raised by BAME female members of staff that were resolved through an Employment Tribunal

6. number of complaints/grievance raised by BAME female members of staff that were settled by the courts

7. amount paid out as settlements for all discrimination and harassment cases

8. amount paid out to BAME male employees as settlement

9. amount paid out to BAME female employees as settlement

10. amount of legal expenditure for dealing with all discrimination and harassment cases

11. amount paid out to settle all race and sex discrimination cases

12. number of work days lost as a result of bullying, discrimination, harassment and victimisation complaints raised by members of staff

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Human Resources and Legal Departments of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Number of Formal complaints / grievances made by staff	20	17	4	1	5	9	16	11	12	11

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Number of Formal complaints / grievances made by Female BAME	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2

3. One case related to workplace bullying and one to sex discrimination. The other case does not fall within the categories stated.

4. All three of the grievances raised were resolved through internal disciplinary procedures

5. None, all resolved through internal disciplinary procedures

6. As question 5.

7. £20,000

8. None

9. None

10. £3,000 plus VAT

11. None

12. Northumbria Police are unable to provide a response as the absence categories held within the system don’t specify any of these reasons.

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.