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From the Devon and Cornwall police

The Equality & Diversity and Professional Standards Departments have provided the
following information:

Do the Police maintain a workforce profile and, if so:
a) is Cornish a category of self-identification within this workforce profile
b) what are the returns.

Devon and Cornwall Police publish the results of its annual staff census, see link below:
https://www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/AboutUs/Pages/StaffCensus.aspx

Cornish is not used as a category of self identification.

In recording the backgrounds of wrongdoers do the Police gather ethnic identifications for Cornish, in order to understand, as they try to do with other groups, if there are general circumstances or attitudes that translate into certain behaviours.

Details of Devon and Cornwall Police's ethnic monitoring procedures are published on the website (see link below). Cornish is not option within either the Self Defined Ethnicity Codings or the Descriptive Ethnicity Codes

https://www.devon-
cornwall.police.uk/SupportAdvice/EqualityDiversity/EqualityScheme/Pages/Aboutethnicity
monitoring.aspx

Lastly, what cases of prejudice towards Cornish people, either internally or in handling incidents, have come to light in the past 5 years, and what has been done about them?

The Professional Standards Department have checked the Complaint and Conduct cases in relation to Discrimination by Race or Other, since 01/01/2007 and have found no allegations that specifically mention discrimination against Cornish people.