Diversity Roles 2025 - FOI Ref: (257A/25)
Request
- Please list the diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) posts currently fulfilled by your police officers, together with the annual salary of each.
- Please list the total annual cost of external training provision to your officers for DEI as listed in the latest accounts and/or budget.
Response
Please find attached our response.
Please note that this data should be interpreted with caution. Comparing numbers of incidents/crimes can be misleading and does not necessarily indicate the likelihood of someone being a victim of crime. In addition, the number of incidents/crimes recorded in an area over a period of time can be influenced by a number of factors. Consequently statistics on incidents/crimes for one period may not necessarily be a good indicator of future incidents in that area.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be 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 the data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of data which has relevance 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.
We are proud of the officers and staff who make up West Midlands Police and are always looking at how we can work with them to improve how we serve the communities of the West Midlands.
West Midlands Police is the second largest police force in the country and it’s vital we build a workforce which is representative of the diverse communities we serve.
We want to enhance equality of opportunity and equality of access for all who live and work in the West Midlands – an area that is rich in diversity and opportunities, but where there are also many inequalities.