Line Manager Endorsement - 954/23

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. Do Police Staff need to complete or submit a Line Manager Endorsement form or similar/equivalent document to be able to submit an internal job application? If this isn’t required at the initial time of applying when is this required (if at all)?

2. Do Police Officers need to complete or submit a Line Manager Endorsement form or similar/equivalent document to be able to submit an internal job application? If this isn’t required at the initial time of applying when is this required (if at all)?

3. If applicable, do you have a copy of the endorsement form(s) or equivalent?

4. Do you have any policies regarding internal recruitment and if applicable specifically around the endorsement forms?

5. If applicable what is the procedure if a line manager and staff member disagree with the content of an endorsement form?

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the People Services and Planning and Governance Department of Northumbria Police.  I can confirm that the information you have requested is held in part by Northumbria Police.

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

1. Police Staff do not need to complete or submit a Line Manager Endorsement form or equivalent document to be able to submit an internal job application.

2. All Police Officers roles that are advertised will ask the applicant to seek Senior Management Team approval to apply for the position.  The applicant includes this detail within the application form.

3. See attached image taken from application form.

4. Northumbria Police do not have a specific policy about the endorsement, however there are policies around recruitment in general.

5. The individual only completes the application and endorsement once they have had a discussion with line management and have agreed they can proceed.

Every effort is made to ensure that the information presented is 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.