E&D expenditure and staffing 535/2026

FOI Reference: 535/2026

Request:

1. Total expenditure on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI/EDI) initiatives, training, external consultants and related programmes.

2. Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) officers and staff in dedicated DEI/EDI, equality, diversity or inclusion roles, and the total salary cost of those posts.

Operational Guidance and Training on Differential Treatment

3. Copies of any current (or in force during 2024–2025) policies, guidance notes, decision-making frameworks, risk-assessment tools, briefing documents or training materials that instruct, advise or refer to officers giving different weight, priority, credibility or response thresholds in incidents involving protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 (especially race or religion). This includes any material covering:

Assessing credibility or prioritising response when one party alleges racism, hate crime, racial abuse or discrimination against another;

Handling competing accounts in violent incidents or public order situations where the suspect/victim dynamic involves different ethnic/religious backgrounds;

Application of unconscious bias, institutional racism, white privilege or similar concepts to operational decisions (e.g. arrest, handcuffing, victim/suspect assessment).

This specifically includes any updates linked to post-2020 events, College of Policing/NPCC hate crime or bias guidance, or non-crime hate incident processes.

If any documents are voluminous, please provide: (i) a list of document titles and dates, (ii) executive summaries or relevant extracts, and (iii) confirmation whether they remain active.

Response 1:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

Response 2:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

2.76 FTE

Response 3:

I can confirm that no National Police Chiefs Council guidance has been distributed to or held by Dyfed-Powys Police. Locally held documents are held, and are attached:

1. Unconscious Bias

2. Diversity, Culture and Inclusion

3. Positive Action

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 23/07/2026)