Equality Information

The Force Equality monitoring information and PDF reports.

Equality Duty

The public sector Equality Duty requires public bodies to consider all individuals when carrying out their day-to-day work. They should have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity, and foster good relations between different people when carrying out their activities.

Public bodies are required to publish relevant information to show compliance with the Equality Duty and must set Equality Objectives. Further information about the equality information that we have published and the steps we are taking to develop and improve the information we collect is available here .

Devon and Cornwall Police are committed to improving the services it provides to all communities. Over the past four years the Force has worked with Independent Advisory Groups to develop a quarterly Equality Monitoring Report. The links below are to the report and other equality information that we collect.

The Equality Information Report

• People
• Staff census
• Equality data definitions
• Victims
• Victims of crime
• Victims of domestic abuse
• Victims of hate crime
• Victims of sexual abuse
• Arrests and detentions
• Arrests all
• Mental health detentions
• Offenders
• Stop and search
• Victim satisfaction
• Victim satisfaction
• Victim satisfaction (racist incidents)
• Confidence
• Staff survey

How do we use this information?

Performance Improvement

This information will be used to help improve performance, identify equality issues and understand how our decisions affect different groups.

Decision making

Devon and Cornwall Police publish the minutes of strategic meetings where decisions about our policy, functions and services are made.

Equality Objectives

We will publish our Equality Objectives as part of our Annual Strategic Plan which will be available from 31 March 2012.