Question
Community background of those leaving PSNI – Chief Constable, can you confirm in relation to exit interviews for those leaving the Service, that the community background of those leaving can be identified, and can those figures be provided to the Board for last year?
Answer
Community background data is gathered at application stage and therefore equality analysis of all stages of the employee lifecycle can be produced, including of those who have left the service and of those who have completed an exit interview.
With respect to the requested data, it should be noted that those resigning from the organisation account for 17% of our overall police officer leavers and 50% of our overall police staff leavers. In seeking to learn and continuously improve our working practices, we encourage those resigning from the organisation to complete an exit interview, however this is an entirely voluntary process.
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