Uned Rhyddid Gwybodaeth a’r Cynllun Cyhoeddi/ Freedom of Information and Publication Scheme
Unit
Response Date:
08/07/2015
2015/402 - Ethnic Monitoring in the Police
In response to your recent request for information regarding;
I wish to make a Freedom of Information request to your police force. The request
regards whether, or not, your force employs the use of ethnic monitoring in
relation to Gypsies and Irish Travellers. With regards to this, I would like to ask
three questions:
1) Are Gypsies and Irish Travellers monitored as standard policy in your police
force?
Clarification requested; What you mean by ‘monitored’?
Clarification received; Are Gypsies/travellers monitored by the 16 point or the 18
point home office ethnicity classification?
North Wales Police use point 19 of the Home Office classification, as we include Welsh,
Scottish and English.
2) If not, please explain why your police force does or does not monitor Gypsies
and Irish Travellers?
Not applicable
3) How many police officers are self-declared either as Romany Gypsy or Irish
Traveller in your force?
North Wales Police do not hold this information.
THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST
UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000, AND IS CORRECT AS AT 29/06/2015
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