Workforce data 1111/2024
FOI Reference: 1111/2024
Request
1.How many Police Officers do you currently employ?
2.How many Police Staff do you currently employ?
3.How many role profiles do you currently utilise for Police Officer posts?
4.How many role profiles do you currently utilise for Police Staff posts?
5.Do you have a standard process for creating, managing, decommissioning Role Profiles, if so, please can you share this with us?
6.Who manages Police Staff Role Profiles within your Force?
7.Who manages Police Officer Role Profiles within your Force?
8.Do you have any documentation you can share regarding the process for Police Staff and Police Officers?
9.Do you utilise job families and/or generic profile templates? If so, please can you share a blank/generic template or a job family tree/description?
10.Do you align any of your profiles to national guidance, such as the Competency and Values Framework, or Professional Profiles/Job families designed by the College of Policing? If so, which?
11.Do you use any software to manage/generate/decommission/disseminate role profiles? Please name this software.
12.Have you been through a process of merging role profiles for Officers/Staff? If so, can you provide an overview of how you achieved this?
13.Do you use role profiles for Police Officer promotion processes? If so, can you provide an overview of how you use the profiles for this purpose.
14.For Police Officer roles, do you decide on the rank of the role, then create a role profile, or do you create a profile based on the needs and then assess against rank structures?
15.Have you ever changed role profiles from being warranted to non-warranted roles. If yes, what considerations do you apply and what was the process to doing this?
16.Do you use any tools for assessing whether a role should be a Police Officer/Staff role? If so, can you describe or share this tool?
17.When did you last review / audit your role profiles?
18.What are your business requirements for role profiles, relating to recruitment, promotion and job evaluation processes?
19.In relation to Q17, how successfully does the existing process meet your business requirements relating to recruitment, promotion and job evaluation (e.g. not at all, partially, or fully met)
Clarification sought
In respect of question 8 of your request – what process are you referring to? Is it the standard process mentioned in question 5 of your request?
Clarification received
In relation to question 8 - Do you have any documentation you can share regarding the process for Police Staff and Police Officers?
The process we refer to is that of the Role Profiles ….so any documentation that details what your policy, process or procedure is to create, manage or decommission Role Profiles.
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
Response Q1
As at 31/10/24 – 1306 officers
Response Q2
As at 31/10/24 – 846 staff
Response Q3
40
Response Q4
333
Response Q5
We use standard templates for the type of roles and these would be created by the Dept, with assistance and guidance from HR
Response Q6 & Q7
These are managed by the HR dept and is the responsibility of the HR Senior Manager for Succession Planning and Reward
Response Q8
There is no information held, due to the fact that there is no formal policy document.
Please note: A formal document is being looked at by the force and may be available in the future.
Response Q9
Yes we do utilise job families and generic profile templates.
The Police officer ones are based on Police Rank and are based on the Professional Profiles as defines by the College of Policing
Please note:
All templates are attached separately.
Response Q10
All our role profiles are aligned to the Competency and Values Framework
Response Q11
No
Response Q12
No
Response Q13
We only use this for Chief Inspector ranks and above and have a generic role profile for the rank based on the College of Policing ones.
Response Q14
We decide on the rank and then create the role profile with the generic requirements, adding on the role specific requirements.
Response Q15
No
Response Q16
No
Response Q17
We would review a role profile prior to publishing it against a vacancy on a role by role basis.
Response Q18
We utilise role profiles in all of these three processes:
Role profiles are required to be in place to determine the job evaluation outcome for the value of the role, and role profiles are used in Recruitment and promotion processes.
Response Q19
It meets our requirements fully.
It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 31/01/2025)
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