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July 25, 2023 | Organisational Information

Reference: F-2023-01779

Request

Request 1
Limit the retrospective research to 3 years on Q1 to 4 or partial return if the labour / cost prohibits.
How many superintendent ranks have submitted written bullying & harassment claims against Constables?

Request 4
How many superintendent ranks have submitted written grievance or bullying & harassment claims against PSNI minority support associations Eg WPA / CPA / CPG / EMPA / CSA / DSN etc.

Request 2
How many superintendent ranks have submitted written grievance claims against Constables?

Request 3
How many superintendent ranks have submitted written grievance or bullying & harassment claims
against Federation or Union representatives?

Request 5
Is there any accredited training for the PSNI administrators of the Bullying & Harassment / Grievance policies.


Clarification sought:
In regards to Request 5 please clarify who you mean by PSNI administrator.


Clarification received:
The ‘administrator’ of the B&H policy is a Grade 7 member of HR Staff.

Request 6
In regards to training provision (if any) is the PSNI Bullying & Harassment / Grievance policy training provided by the PSNI college, GB College of Policing, HR or a third party external training provider?

Request 7
Of the current serving 76 superintendent ranks, how many are trained to be administrators of the bullying & Harassment / grievance policies and specifically how many are trained to be ‘information gathers’ and/or ‘decision makers’ within the PSNI bullying & Harassment / grievance policies?

Request 8
How many current HR Department grade 7 personnel are currently trained to administrators of the bullying & harassment / grievance policies and specifically be ‘information gathers’ or ‘decision makers’ within the PSNI bullying & Harassment / grievance policies?

Request 9
Where the trained grade 7 manager downward delegates responsibility to a lower grade manager, specifically for the administration of the PSNI bullying & Harassment / grievance policies functions of ‘information gathers & decision makers’, are there safeguards in place (assuming there is competency training) that lower grades are equally trained within the same processes?

Clarification sought:
In regards to Request 9 please clarify what do you mean by ‘administration of the PSNI bullying & harassment / grievance policies functions.’


Clarification received:
The ‘administration’ is any downward delegation of management functions of the B&H policy by the grade 7.

Bullying & Harassment / Grievances