2022/24995 - gender/sex' category
REQUEST
Please provide separate answers to the following 8 questions in respect of 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://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.app.college.police.uk%2Fapp-content%2Finformation-management%2Fmanagement-of-police-information%2Fcommon-process%2F%23-common-process-at-force-level&data=04%7C01%7CFOI%40gwent.police.uk%7C59f819c4d1ed4ff2bd8e08da02bd3167%7Ce46c8472ef5d4b63bc744a60db42c371%7C0%7C0%7C637825308841128944%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=zj50IkwfzLuZk38w5fekRG2L%2BAuzljYwMKCIOfsSP44%3D&reserved=0 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
Section 21 – Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means
The exemption applicable to the information you have requested for this question can be found at Section 21 of the Act and this refusal notice is issued under Section 17.
I am engaging the Section 21 Exemption under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means.
The information you have requested can be found at the attached link below: