Official Devon & Cornwall Police Equality, Diversity & Human Rights Strategic Group held on Thursday 13 September 2018 at 09:30am in the Helford Room, Force Headquarters, Middlemoor, Exeter

Attendance Deborah Marsden (Assistant Chief Juliet Simmons (Head of Equality and Diversity) Constable Delivery) (Chair) Mark Arthurs (EDHRSG Officer) Vicky Booty (OPCC’s Office) Steve Parker (Commander Crime & Justice) Carey Owen (Head of People Strategy & Jacqui Hawley (Superintendent Prevention) Policy) Gareth Twigg ( Christine Howard (Planning & Performance Sarah Hobson (Alliance Business Change) Manager) Martin Whitehouse (LGBT Network) Matt Longman (CIOS BCU) Teresa Berridge (Equality, Diversity & Human Emily Owen (Womens Network) Rights Officer) Keith Perkin (Mental Wellbeing Network) Phil Skedgell (Christian Police Association) Rob Mooney (Representing Plymouth BCU) Andy Berry (Police Federation) Sophie Jones (Tri-Partite Rep) Sarah Jepp (Devon Diverse Communities Team Jan Dwan (Strategic Meetings Hub) Leader Sergeant)

Guests Ben Shardlow (Professional Development Louise Costin (PSD) (for minute reference Unit Supervisor) (for minute reference 03/18/28 03./18/27 Ali Lander (for minute reference 03/18/26) Jamaa Ben M’Hand (DCT Team)

Independent Advisors from item 02/18/10 Keith Denby (Hate Crime Reference Group) Syed Jusef (Devon Local Reference Group) Brian Nathan (Devon Local Reference Group) Jill Singh (Hate Crime Reference Group)

Apologies Shaun Sawyer (Chief Constable) John Harrison (Head of Occupational Health) Sharon Taylor (ACC Convergence Sandy Goscomb (Director of Finances and Programme Director of proposed merger) Resources) Graham Smith (Director of People) Matt Trevivian (Dyslexia Staff Support Group) Pete Windle (Head of Professional Standards Nikki Leaper (Ops Department / D&C & Dorset) Superintendents’ Association) Antony Hart (Crime & Justice) Craig Downham (Plymouth BCU) Alexis Poole (Head of performance and Richard Bullock (Alliance Business Change) Analysis) Catherine Thomas (Mental Wellbeing Network)

03/18/21 Opening and Declaration of Interests [FOIA Open]

Shaun Sawyer opened the meeting and welcomed members and guests. Shaun Sawyer gave his apologies for the remainder of the meeting as he had another commitment that he had to attend. Shaun Sawyer handed the chair over to Debbie Marsden. No declarations of interest were made.

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03/18/22 Equality Objective Presentations [FOIA various as below]

a. Hate Crime Reference Group [FOIA Closed s.31 (1) (a)]

b. Progress update on the Hate Crime Equality Objectives (Business Areas) [FOIA Open] Juliet Simmons gave the Equality and Objectives presentation to members. Due to the amount of information within the presentation the following key issues within the presentation were highlighted:

Plymouth BCU LPP staff had built an excellent relationship with Piety and regularly visited as part of the organisations ‘open door’ policy.

Activity and progress in Plymouth included:

 Hate crime detectives working with City College to develop a DVD on Hate Crime and to support them to become a third party reporting centre.  Work was being carried out with taxi drivers to also establish a third party reporting centre.  Work with the Polish community to explore opportunities to develop a third party reporting centre.

Devon Diverse Communities Team (DCT) Representatives meet Local Policing Areas (LPA) Commanders once a month to ensure that Devon LPA’s are working in the right areas. Hate Crime data was used to support the focus on under reported areas.

Babcock representatives attended the Gypsy Roma and Traveller (GRT) forums which were bringing confidence to the communities to report Hate Crime and the potential to expose other crimes such as Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), Modern Slavery and vulnerability.

The arson attack on the Exeter Synagogue on 21 July 2018 was highlighted. The attack had had a huge impact on the Jewish community. The Force responded to the incident and were on the scene in two to three minutes. A joint statement had been published which had gone into great detail advocating that the Force would not tolerate these sort of attacks. It was noted that there had been an outpour of support for Devon and Cornwall Police across the community.

Cornwall Diverse Community Team In 2017/2018 Hate Crime workshops had been provided to year eight and nine students in schools in south east and north Cornwall. This enabled students to act as ambassadors raising awareness with other students.

The sixth Blue Light Day was held in July 2018.

Activity and progress in Cornwall included:

EDHR 13/09/18 – Agreed 2 Fairness & Respect : Integrity : Courage : Professionalism Official  Five reporting centres and work was starting to review the approach to third party reporting and identify opportunities to make further progress.

Custody Staff CPD training on Modern Slavery for custody staff had increased awareness of modern slavery and associated offences.

Call Management and Communications Unit (CMCU) [FOIA open] CMCU were working with the Devon diverse communities team to engage with ‘hard to engage’ communities and gain greater insight into the issues, concerns and obstacles they may face in contacting the police.

Web chat service was implemented in September 2018. Online crime reporting was also available.

c. Performance Update [FOIA Open]

Chris Howard presented the performance data on Hate Crime. Further to the slides as presented, the following key points were highlighted:

 Devon and Cornwall Police had recorded 1,031 hate crimes in 2016/2017 which was a 28% increase on the previous year  Homophobic hate crime in South Devon LPA had increased 193% (79)  There had been a National increase in Transphobic Hate Crime.

Survey Findings Data for victim satisfaction in the 12 months to August 2018 were highlighted. There had been a total of 2061 respondents to the survey. Respondents who had been a victim more than once in the last 12 months had significantly lower levels of satisfaction with:

 Ease of contact  Actions taken  Kept informed  Treatment  Whole experience

21% (424) respondents were identified as a repeat victim.

It was highlighted that figures for Hate Crime respondents could not be compared with national figures and there was no significant differences in satisfaction levels between respondents whose crime(s) were motivated by hate compared to those who were not.

Discussion was held around the survey findings. However, the presentation did not give any update on action 189. At the meeting on 12 July 2018 there had been an update on Hate Crime. There had been an increase of 72% in homophobic hate crime. The group had asked if there was a reason for this increase. Whether the increase happened at certain times / events etc. It had been agreed that this would be investigated further and an update brought back to the meeting. The reasoning behind the increase had not been seen within the presentation. Therefore the

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03/18/23 Executive Lead Update - Disability [FOIA Open]

Members received and noted a paper on the Disability Executive Update. The following key points were highlighted:

 Be active safe and healthy (BASH) awards. Devon Basic Command Unit (BCU) had held its second BASH awards earlier in the year. This was an opportunity to develop police/community relationships, building trust and confidence and recognising the valuable contribution disabled people make to society.  The DCT’s continued to develop their relationships with existing disability groups and engaging with new groups.  Through engagement by the local DCT links were continuing to be developed with various autism groups.  Third party reporting was being looked into for deaf and learning disabilities and autism.  Staff support groups were highlighted. Including the Mental Wellbeing Network.  The ‘Lets talk’ film initiative was now rolling out as an Alliance wide project. Volunteers had shared their experiences to help promote discussions around mental ill health and recovery. It was envisaged that the film would be released to mark World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2018  Peer support initiative. It was hoped that 6 peer supporters would be trained in Dorset and a further 60 trained in Devon and Cornwall with an additional 20 peer supporter supervisors across the Alliance.  Dyslexia Support Group would continue to be developed.  Corporate Equality and Diversity department had enabled all its staff to receive deaf awareness training.

03/18/24 Minutes from previous meeting on 12 July 2018 [FOIA Open]

The minutes from the meeting on 12 July 2018 were agreed as a true and accurate record.

03/18/25 Actions Sheet [FOIA various as below]

Members received and noted the actions sheet for 13 September 2018. The following updates were noted:

a. Actions 149/151a/151b] UNIFI and data victim requirements (previous minute reference [FOIA Closed s.31 (1) (a)] Action to remain open

EDHR 13/09/18 – Agreed 4 Fairness & Respect : Integrity : Courage : Professionalism Official b. Action 169 Street Interactions training evaluation report (previous minute reference 01/18/04(b) [FOIA Open] An update had been provided outside of the meeting by Becky Villar. A team members was currently carrying out research around the changes in the quality of the forms submitted. Contact would be made with a key individual to understand if there had been any changes in the quality of the ViSTs as a result of the training as the initial work was proving to be difficult. Once more details were known an update would be given to members. Action to remain open

c. Action 170(a) Tattoos [FOIA Open] Members received and noted an update on Tattoo guidance. A paper had previously been presented to EDHRSG on 7 September 2017 which sought to determine the Force’s direction on the acceptance and governance of tattoos for both police Officers and Staff. Brief discussion was held around the issue.

The Group agreed:

1. That the force developed its own guidance in regard to tattoos which enabled the flexibility and clarity that was missing from the College of Policing guidance (2017) and that it evidences a consistent approach for all; candidates, student officers, newly appointed staff and existing officers and staff. 2. In order to progress recommendation 1 that the Head of People Strategy and Policy be given responsibility for this piece of work with consideration to the setting up of a small Working Group to support her in achieving 1 above and in reviewing the previously detailed recommendations of the September 7 2017 Tattoo paper. 3. That Dorset Police are invited to be part of the Working Group such that the guidance may be developed jointly to achieve consistency of approach across both forces. 4. The developed guidance would be brought back to EDHRSG prior to ratification. Action to remain open. Action owner now Carey Owen

d. Action 177 Sexting awareness in schools [FOIA Open] An update was received outside of the meeting. Due to departmental and staff changes the development of an ‘easy read’ version remained outstanding. Charlotte Howard within Corporate Communications would pick up and take forward the action as it was awareness that Corporate E & D and the DCT’s were endeavouring to raise within the learning disabled and deaf communities. Action to remain open

e. Action 179a & b Lammy Review (Previous minute reference 05/17/53)[FOIA] An update was not available at the meeting. Action to remain open

f. Action 180a Racial Disparities Task and Finish Group(previous minute reference 01/18/04) [FOIA open] An update was not available at the meeting.

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g. Action 182 Dynamic Thinking around Complaints (previous minute reference 01/18/05)[FOIA open] Working was being carried out on hard to identify themes in terms of common areas of complaint, ie Eclipse, flagging these to the Heads of Dept to consider learning to prevent further complaints or ensure it has Corporate support , ie policy so the complaint is Direction and Control rather than individual, provided the policy has been followed correctly. We manage ‘Learning the Lessons’ so we raise aspects where we feel there needs to be increased learning or training to support individuals/depts. So we continue to learn as an organisation and ensure our processes remain relevant and fit for purpose. Action discharged

h. Action 186 Gender audit and pay gap results (previous minute reference 01/18/10(b) [FOIA open] The various actions designed to address under representation across ranks/grade and departments and which would assist with closing the gender pay gap continued to be progressed in accordance with the approved detailed people strategies and associated implementation plans. These included for example, further menopause conferences, joining the HeforShe campaign, Confidence in Women workshops, improved talent management to support development and progression of women and continued support for the Women’s Network. A single ‘plan’ to give visibility to these actions is being compiled and will be presented at the December 13 2018 meeting. Action to remain open

i. Action 187 Executive Lead update – Race (Previous minute reference 28/18/15(a)) [FOIA open] An update was not available at the meeting. Action to remain open

j. Action 188 Executive Lead Update – Sexual Orientation (previous minute reference 02/18/15(b) [FOIA open] The design had been sent to the Chair of the LGBT network. Action discharged

k. Action 189 Increase in Hate Crime (previus minute reference 02/18/20) [FOIA open] An update was not available at thei meeting. Action to remain open

03/18/26 Six monthly Stop and Search analysis and update [FOIA closed s. 22 Information intended for future publication]

03/18/27 Dyslexia [FOIA Closed s. 22 Information intended for future publication]

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03/18/29 Positive action update [FOIA Closed s. 22 Information intended for future publication]

03/18/30 Other items raised by the chair [FOIA open]

Members raised the issue of increased Hate Crime when ‘Brexit’ came into Force in 2019. A question was raised if there was any governance and contingencies around the planning for Brexit. It was not known if there was any information nationally around this subject. It was agreed that Debbie Marsden would make enquiries and report back to the Group. For action by: Debbie Marsden

Date, time and location of next meeting There being no other business, the meeting concluded at 1:30pm. The next meeting will be on Thursday 13 December 2018, at 9:30am in the Helford Room, Headquarters.

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