Promotion Assessors (798A/22)
Request
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act, and I seek information on the level of training provided to assessors for promotions within your police force.
Please state:
- The number of force assessors who assess police officers for promotion from Constable to Sergeant.
- A breakdown of these assessor’s ethnicities.
- How many hours of training these assessors have each received.
- The number of force assessors who assess police officers for promotion from Sergeant to Inspector.
- A breakdown of these assessor’s ethnicities.
- How many hours of training these assessors have each received.
- The number of force assessors who assess police officers for promotion from Inspector to Chief Inspector.
- A breakdown of these assessor’s ethnicities.
- How many hours of training these assessors have each received.
- The number of force assessors who assess police officers for promotion from Chief Inspector to Superintendent.
- A breakdown of these assessor’s ethnicities.
- How many hours of training these assessors have each received.
- The number of force assessors who assess police officers for promotion from Superintendent to Chief Superintendent.
- A breakdown of these assessor’s ethnicities.
- How many hours of training these assessors have each received.
- The number of force assessors who assess police officers for promotion from Chief Superintendent to Chief Officer.
- A breakdown of these assessor’s ethnicities.
- How many hours of training these assessors have each received.
Response
Please find attached our response.
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.