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Request:
Q1. Please provide your guidance/policies on Trans Inclusion. Please include all groups/organisations who have contributed to this guidance.
Q2. Please provide what information/training staff are given to ensure Trans Identifying individuals are not discriminated against. Please include who provides this training/guidance.
Q3. Please confirm if individuals are treated in accordance with the gender they identify with (rather than their sex). For example could a male suspect identifying otherwise insist on being intimately searched by female officers? (and vice versa).
Q4. Please confirm if staff are treated in accordance with the gender they identify with rather than their sex. Could a female suspect be intimately searched by male officers identifying otherwise? (and vice versa).
Q5. Please confirm how you balance the rights of people with gender critical beliefs. Please provide information on what support/training is provided for staff when dealing with individuals with gender critical beliefs (a belief that biological sex is immutable and can not be changed).
Q6. Please include your policy on using pronouns. Include what support/training is provided for staff. Please outline how gender critical staff are supported. For example, an alternative to using a person's preferred pronouns, such as using a name instead.
Q7. Please confirm all policies/guidance where the protected characteristic of sex has been replaced with 'gender'. For example do you record a person's gender instead of their sex? Please confirm who implemented these changes and when and how this aligns with the Equality Act 2010 and EHRC guidance.
Q8. Please provide your policy/guidance for accessing single sex facilities (a recommendation of EHRC)
Q9. Are your toilets/showers/changing rooms etc accessible on account of gender rather than sex? If so, how do you balance the needs of other protected groups; sex, specifically women (including staff) religious and gender critical beliefs?
Response:
Extent of Searches to Locate Information
Following receipt of your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police to locate relevant information.
Decision
I am not obliged to provide you with a response to your request pursuant to Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). Please note that when one part of your request falls under Section 12, we are not obliged to review the rest of the questions and the whole request is therefore exempt.
Section 12(1) applies to your request as the cost of complying with your request is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond i.e. the cost of identifying and retrieving any relevant information exceeds the ‘appropriate level’ as stated in the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Due to the nature of our recording systems the information requested, if held, is not in an easily retrievable format. Our information retrieval process generally relies on a computer ran report which captures any information recorded upon the surface of a record or within specified fields. Where relevant information is held deeper in the record, or outside of a specified field, a manual assessment is required to retrieve that information.
In order to retrieve the requested information, to confirm all policies and guidance, we would need to manually review to see what, if any, changes had been made to the policies that are held and whether any of those changes were for protected characteristics, this manual process would exceed the time limit allowed under the Act.
Pursuant to Section 17(5) of the Freedom of Information Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice.
Pursuant to Section 16 of the Act I am required to offer you advice and assistance with regarding to refining your request to within the ‘appropriate limit’ (time/cost limit). However, we may be able to provide some information for the rest of the request I you resubmit and omit part 7. If you wish to discuss this please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.