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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.

  1. Please provide your force’s policy on Job-Related Fitness Testing
  1. Please provide your force’s policy on Personal Safety Training
  1. 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

 

  1. 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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