Reflective Practise Process (1771A/21)
Request
Since the introduction of the reflective practice review process (Feb-2020)
Please can you provide on a month by month basis the number of officers who have had a Reflect Practise review.
Please provide the brief circumstances that give rise to the review from the first 10 cases of each ( if any)
How many times has the PSD directed that a officer should have RPR instead of formal disciplinary action.
Response
We can confirm that some relevant information is held by West Midlands Police. However, we are withholding that information since it is exempt by virtue of the following exemptions
S40 (2) Personal data
These exemptions and explanatory notes are shown here:
Section 40 (2) allows for personal data to be withheld where release would breach the third party’s data protection rights. It would be unfair to release this information where any person could be identified from the data and in this case the right to privacy outweighs any public interest in release.
In the case of the release of information pertaining to the most recent ten cases, the exemption above has been applied.
Please find enclosed our response
Reflect Practise Review within West Midlands Police can be overseen either at management level or PSD (complaints department) level. In the case of the ones dealt with at management level they are at Table A & B below:
Reflective Practice Logs 2020
TABLE A
| Month
2020 |
Practice Requires Improvement | Manager Initiated | Self-Initiated | Monthly Total |
| Jul | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Aug | 0 | 6 | 17 | 23 |
| Sep | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Oct | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Nov | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| Dec | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| Reflective Practice Logs 2021
TABLE B |
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| Month
2021 |
Practice Requires Improvement | Manager Initiated | Self-Initiated | Monthly Total |
| Jan | 0 | 11 | 2 | 13 |
| Feb | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Mar | 1 | 5 | 9 | 15 |
| Apr | 1 | 12 | 5 | 18 |
| May | 0 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| Jun | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Jul | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Aug | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| Sep | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| Oct | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| Nov | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Dec | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
It is key to note that this may not be a true reflection of the actual numbers which could be much higher as it does not consider any Reflective Practice that may have been completed manually and not logged our electronic recording systems.
In the case of those dealt with at PSD level, these are complaints that have resulted in RPR being the conclusion of the complaint case, the resulting action. These are detailed in Table C below:
TABLE C
| Month | 2020 | 2021 |
| January | 0 | 1 |
| February | 0 | 2 |
| March | 0 | 5 |
| April | 1 | 4 |
| May | 1 | 7 |
| June | 1 | 3 |
| July | 0 | 4 |
| August | 1 | 2 |
| September | 2 | 6 |
| October | 3 | 3 |
| November | 1 | 4 |
| December | 2 | 2 |
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