Discrimination Complaints - 242/22

Date Responded 01 March 2022

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:

1. The number of frontline and back office police staff who have complained to Northumbria Police about being discriminated against by the force not making reasonable accommodation's/adjustments in the workplace for their disabilities ? For the periods 2019,2020 and 2021.

2. The number of frontline and back office police staff who have complained to Northumbria Police about being discriminated against for their religious beliefs ? For the periods 2019, 2020 and 2021

 

In Response:

1. The number of frontline and back office police staff who have complained to Northumbria Police about being discriminated against by the force not making reasonable accommodation's/adjustments in the workplace for their disabilities ? For the periods 2019,2020 and 2021.

2. The number of frontline and back office police staff who have complained to Northumbria Police about being discriminated against for their religious beliefs ? For the periods 2019, 2020 and 2021

Complaint Type

2019

2020

2021

Disability

3

1

4

Religion

0

0

0

 

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

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