Complaints of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape WMP officers (721A/21)
Request
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000), regarding complaints of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape against officers, community support officers and special constables over the past five calendar years (2016-2020).
Q1: How many complaints of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape were made against officers, community support officers and special constables between the calendar years 2016 to 2020?
Q2: What was the outcome of each complaint? An allegation outcome could be: case to answer, discontinuance, dispensation, no case to answer, ongoing, withdrawn.
Q3: Where there was a case to answer, what disciplinary action was taken?
Q4: Please specify the allegation of each complaint.
Response
Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding. The request has been with our Professional Standards Department who were trying to ascertain if the information requested is held in a retrievable format. However, due to system and resourcing problems this has taken longer than would usually be anticipated.
Unfortunately they have established that 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).
The information is not held in an electronically retrievable format. There is not a specific category that the information is recorded under and so the only way to locate accurate information would be to individually assess each complaint record which would exceed the 18 hour time limitations within the FOI Act.
I am unable to suggest any practical way in which your request may be modified in order to satisfy your query or bring it within the 18 hours stipulated by the Regulations. I am however willing to consider any refinements that you are able to make to your request, in accordance with Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act. If you would like to look into refining your request please contact me.
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