FOI 433944
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 433944 BS
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 26th September 2025. Please find below the response to your request:
This is an information request relating to equality, diversity and inclusion staff within the force.
Please include the following information:
- Does the force have a dedicated team for equality, diversity
- and inclusion, i.e. a team separate to the human resources team which might otherwise be expected to fulfil the role of ensuring the force meets its commitments under the equalities act?
- If so, please provide the number of staff working in this
- team. Please also include as much of the following information as possible:
- The job title of each role
- The pay band of each role (including the monetary amounts)
- The FTE of the role, e.g. if a role is only 4 days a week
- this would be expressed as 0.8 FTE
- Please also provide the following information for the
- 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25:
- The number of FTE roles in the equality, diversity and
- inclusion team on the final date of each financial year
- The total cost of these roles as existed on the final
- date of each financial year
- Please also provide the latest equality, diversity and
- inclusion strategy the force has published, or the one currently in place
Reply
West Mercia Police hold the majority of the information you have requested.
Q Does the force have a dedicated team for equality, diversity and inclusion, i.e. a team separate to the human resources team which might otherwise be expected to fulfil the role of ensuring the force meets its commitments under the equalities act?
Yes
Q If so, please provide the number of staff working in this team. Please also include as much of the following information as possible:
- The job title of each role
- The pay band of each role (including the monetary amounts)
- The FTE of the role, e.g. if a role is only 4 days a week
this would be expressed as 0.8 FTE
As of 1st October, within the Culture and Inclusion team, we had:
1 x Chief Inspector - Culture and Inclusion - £71,715
1 x Sergeant - Positive Action and Retention - £56,208
1 x Constable - Outreach - £50,256
1 x EDI Advisor - £40,893
However, we are undergoing a change process and the team will soon be reduced to:
1 x Sergeant - £56,208
Our neighbourhood teams will be focused on community engagement and partnerships, along with liaising with our Independent Advisory Groups (IAGs)
Q Please also provide the following information for the 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25:
- The number of FTE roles in the equality, diversity and
inclusion team on the final date of each financial year
- The total cost of these roles as existed on the final
date of each financial year
For 2022-23
1 x Chief Inspector - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
1 x Sergeant - Positive Action
1 x Constable - Outreach
2 x EDI Advisors
For 2023-24
1 x Chief Inspector - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
1 x Sergeant - Positive Action
2 x Constables - Outreach
1 x EDI Advisor
For 2024-25
1 x Chief Inspector - Culture and Inclusion
1 x Sergeant - Positive Action and Retention
1 x Constable - Outreach
1 x EDI Advisor
Q Please also provide the latest equality, diversity and inclusion strategy the force has published, or the one currently in place
Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires West Mercia Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.
The exemption applicable to the information is:
Sec 21(1) Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means
This is an Absolute, class based exemption.
The information that you require is already available
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Strategy | West Mercia Police