Intimate Personal Relationships (653A/22)
Request
Does your Force require officers and staff to disclose to Professional Standards Departments/Anti-Corruption Units/Vetting Units any new intimate personal relationships they enter?
What does your Force define as an intimate personal relationship requiring disclosure?
Does this definition include extra marital / relationship affairs?
How many investigations have there been in your Force in the last 3 years into non-disclosure of extra marital / relationship affairs? Please break these numbers down into the following categories:
I) Male Police Officers
II) Female Police Officers
III) Male Civilian Staff
IV) Female Civilian staff
How many officers / staff have been disciplined for non-disclosure of extra marital / relationship affairs in the last 3 years?
I) Male Police Officers
II) Female Police Officers
III) Male Civilian Staff
IV) Female Civilian staff
How many officers / staff have been demoted or denied promotion due to non-disclosure of extra marital / relationship affairs in the last 3 years?
I) Male Police Officers
II) Female Police Officers
III) Male Civilian Staff
IV) Female Civilian staff
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.