2021/24260 - Gender sex category
REQUEST
This is a FOIA for the following information. Please provide separate answers to the following 8 questions in respect of:
The Annual Data Requirement (ADR)
The Police National Database (PND)
The Police National Computer (PNC)
Crime & Incident Reporting
- What explanatory guidance has been provided to your police force on the information you should record in the ‘gender/sex' category? As examples, this might include guidance documents provided by: College of Policing, Home Office, ONS, or any other official body. Please provide me with a copy of the guidance document(s) in use.
- In the gender/sex category does your police force record a victim's or suspect's "natal sex" (their biological sex observed at birth), their "legal sex" (the sex on their birth certificate), or their "self-declared gender or gender identity”?
- If a male-born person self-identifies as female will this be recorded by you as female or male?
- If a male-born person self-identifies as non-binary will this be recorded by you as female or male or something else?
- If someone is transgender (identifies as a different gender to the sex assigned at birth) and has obtained a Gender Recognition Certificate is this recorded by you separately?
- If someone is transgender (identifies as a different gender to the sex observed at birth) but has not obtained a Gender Recognition Certificate is this recorded by you separately?
- If a male-born person identifies as female, has obtained a Gender Recognition Certificate and is arrested for/charged with the crime of rape will you record the gender/sex of the suspect/perpetrator as male or female? Will transgender status also be recorded?
- If a male-born person identifies as female, has not obtained a Gender Recognition Certificate and is arrested for/charged with the crime of rape will you record the gender/sex of the suspect/perpetrator as male or female? Will transgender status also be recorded?
Additionally, please answer the following:
The College of Policing requirements for Information Management specify that each UK police force must have an Information Management Strategy (IMS): ): https://www.app.college.police.uk/app-content/information-management/management-of-police-information/common-process/#-common-process-at-force-level As you will know, the IMS should be made available to partners and the public, and I would therefore ask you to please provide me with a copy of your local police force IMS.
RESPONSE