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FOI Reference: 1167/2024
Request
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please send me a full copy of your latest workforce diversity plan or plans, including diverse hiring practice plans.
Please send me the full versions, not a summary. If possible, please send them in searchable PDF format rather than a scanned-in, photocopied version or a hard copy.
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Response
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, however the following exemption has been applied to the whole of the information you have requested:
Section 21 – Information reasonably accessible by other means
“(1) Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—
(a) information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
(b) information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the information is available from the public authority itself on request, unless the information is made available in accordance with the authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the scheme.”
The above exemption has been applied to the request due to the fact that the requested information is already published and can be accessed via the hyperlink below:
Our Strategic Equality Plan is published here:
https://www.dyfed-powys.police.uk/police-forces/dyfed-powys-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-equality-objectives/
PDF format:
https://www.dyfed-powys.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/dyfed-powys/about-us/equality-and-diversity/our-equality-objectives/strategic-equality-plan-2024-2028.pdf
Due to the fact that the Positive Action Strategy will be published on the website soon, the below exemption has also been applied to this request.
Section 22 – Information Intended for Future Publication
“(1) Information is exempt information if –
Section 22 is a qualified class-based exemption and considerations must be given as to whether there is a public interest in providing the information prior to the anticipated publication.
Public Interest Test
Considerations favouring disclosure:
Dyfed-Powys Police is committed to demonstrating an ethos of openness, transparency and accountability and to disclose the information would be seen as providing updated information, and demonstrating continuing ongoing awareness. Current information would enhance public knowledge of the subject and that may better inform public debate around this subject
Considerations favouring non-disclosure:
The requested information is due to be published by Dyfed-Powys Police in due course and to disclose the information requested under the Freedom of Information Act would pre-empt this disclosure. Publication processes are in place and disclosure outside of those arranged processes will render such processes obsolete. Such processes are in place to ensure the proactive publication of information, which is in line with the ethos of openness and transparency found within the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Balancing Test
Factors need to be balanced to see if they favour disclosure or non-disclosure of the information. In this case the strongest consideration for disclosure is demonstrating an ethos of openness, transparency and accountability, being weighed against the consideration for non-disclosure which in this case is that the requested information is proactively produced and published. Proactive publication of information assists in meeting the public interest test, disclosure at an earlier date would render such processes obsolete and the Force would continuously have to furnish Freedom of Information requests when there is a process in place which ensures that the Force is open and transparent in regard to such information. Therefore, at this moment in time, the balancing test for disclosure is not made out.
Therefore, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 08/01/2025)
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