Job related fitness ( 962A/21)
Request
Please provide the requested information on the Job-Related Fitness Test (JRFT) for the period 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. If the full data sets are not available for this period (e.g. if your standard data collection period is different to that set out above), please provide data for the nearest available reporting period, and indicate the period over which the data has been provided.
- Please provide your force’s policy on Job-Related Fitness Testing
- Please provide your force’s policy on Personal Safety Training
- Please provide the following data:
- Total number of police officers in your force who have attended, passed and failed the JRFT in the period 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.
- Please provide breakdowns of these data by officers’ gender and age in the following format:
- Men and Age
| Number of male officers attended | Number of male officers passed | Number of male officers failed | |
| Under 20 | |||
| 21 – 30 | |||
| 31 – 40 | |||
| 41 – 50 | |||
| 51 – 60 | |||
| Over 60 | |||
| Total |
- Women and Age
| Number of female officers attended | Number of female officers passed | Number of female officers failed | |
| Under 20 | |||
| 21 – 30 | |||
| 31 – 40 | |||
| 41 – 50 | |||
| 51 – 60 | |||
| Over 60 | |||
| Total |
- Please provide the following data:
- The number of police officers in your force who were (for any reason) placed on Stage One, Stage Two or Stage Three of Unsatisfactory Performance Procedures (UPP) under police regulations in the period 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.
- The number of police officers in your force who were placed on Stage One, Stage Two or Stage Three of Unsatisfactory Performance Procedures (UPP) under police regulations as a result of their physical fitness or as a result of failure to pass the JRFT in the period 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.
- Please provide breakdowns of the data requested in Question 4.2 by gender in the following format:
| Stage One UPP | Stage Two UPP | Stage Three UPP | |
| Men | |||
| Women |
Response
Our data are not organised in such a way as to allow us to provide this information within the appropriate (cost) limit within the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (see ‘Reason for Decision’ below).
Although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, as a gesture of goodwill I have supplied information, relative to your request, retrieved before it was realised that the fees limit would be exceeded (see enclosed document). I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for the remainder of the request.
Q1: Please provide your force’s policy on Job-Related Fitness Testing
Under section 22 of the Freedom of Information Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already scheduled to be released into the public domain. The information you requested is published annually and is currently being collated as part of our Proactive Publication Scheme and shortly due to be made available on our website at the following link:
http://foi.west-midlands.police.uk/
Q2: Please provide your force’s policy on Personal Safety Training
https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/conflict-management
We follow the National guidance from the college of policing – link above.
Q3: Please provide the following data:
Total number of police officers in your force who have attended, passed and failed the JRFT in the period 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.
Please provide breakdowns of these data by officers’ gender and age in the following format:
The format you have requested is not available as our data is not recorded that way. In order to assess how many under 20’s there are 1604 records which would need to be individually accessed in order to see the number of those aged under 20.
10 minutes per record x 1604 = 16040
16040 divided by 60 = 267 hours
However the following breakdown is available which I hope you find of some use.
MSFT (Multi stage fitness test):
- Men and Age
| Number of male officers attended | Number of male officers passed | Number of male officers failed | |
| under 30 | 127 | 127 | 0 |
| 31 – 40 | 646 | 637 | 9 |
| 41 – 50 | 466 | 459 | 7 |
| 51 – 60 | 122 | 108 | 14 |
| Over 60 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 1364 | 1333 | 31 |
- Women and Age
| Number of female officers attended | Number of female officers passed | Number of female officers failed | |
| under 30 | 37 | 37 | 0 |
| 31 – 40 | 109 | 104 | 5 |
| 41 – 50 | 58 | 54 | 4 |
| 51 – 60 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| Over 60 | NA | NA | NA |
| Total | 213 | 201 | 12 |
CTWT (Chester treadmill walk test)
- Men and Age
| Number of male officers attended | Number of male officers passed | Number of male officers failed | |
| Under 30 | NA | NA | NA |
| 31 – 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 41 – 50 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
| 51 – 60 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Over 60 | NA | NA | NA |
| Total | 23 | 22 | 1 |
- Women and Age
| Number of female officers attended | Number of female officers passed | Number of female officers failed | |
| under 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 – 40 | NA | NA | NA |
| 41 – 50 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 51 – 60 | NA | NA | NA |
| Over 60 | NA | NA | NA |
| Total | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Q4: Please provide the following data:
The number of police officers in your force who were (for any reason) placed on Stage One, Stage Two or Stage Three of Unsatisfactory Performance Procedures (UPP) under police regulations in the period 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.
Two officers
The number of police officers in your force who were placed on Stage One, Stage Two or Stage Three of Unsatisfactory Performance Procedures (UPP) under police regulations as a result of their physical fitness or as a result of failure to pass the JRFT in the period 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.
zero officers
Please provide breakdowns of the data requested in Question 4.2 by gender in the following format:
| Stage One UPP | Stage Two UPP | Stage Three UPP | |
| Men | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Women | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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