Stop and Search
Community engagement
Equality Impact Assessment
An Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) measures the adverse and positive impact of policing proposals on communities through a structured and transparent process.
Proposals include corporate and local policies, corporate change, projects, procedures, functions, strategies, strategic decisions, pre-planned operations, policing plans and schemes.
Impact assessment is an ongoing engagement, decision-making and risk assessment process, to be started early and continued throughout the development of proposals.
To access the Stop and Search Equality Impact Assessment go to our borough data page and click on one of the London boroughs and scroll down to ‘Stop and Search’ in the ‘How We Are Doing’ section and select ‘Impact Assessment’.
Stop & Search DVD
Operation Pennant
What is Operation Pennant?
Operation Pennant is a performance framework for Stop & Search. It
addresses issues in relation to Stop & Search.
Aim:
- To improve performance by increasing the proportion of searches leading to property being seized or people being arrested.
- To improve the perceptions of fairness about the use of the powers
- To improve accountability of police action to local communities
- To improve the quality of intelligence used as the basis for police use of these powers
- To improve community confidence in the use of police power
Performance Indicators:
- Volume
- Self-Defined Ethnicity Code recorded
- Arrest rates
- Disparity in arrest rates
- Timeliness
- Disproportionality
Self Defined Ethnicity (SDE) Codes
We asked people about their ethnicity so that the fair treatment of different ethnic groups can be monitored (internally and independently) to improve the service we provide.
Self Defined Ethnicity (SDE) Code
| Code | Ethnic Background |
|---|---|
| Asian or British Asian (A) | |
| A1 | Indian |
| A2 | Pakinstani |
| A3 | Bangladeshi |
| A9 | Any other Asian background |
| Black or Black British (B) | |
| B1 | Caribbean |
| B2 | African |
| B9 | Any other Black background |
| Chinese or other Ethnic Group (D) | |
| O1 | Chinese |
| O9 | Any other ethnic group |
| Mixed (M) | |
| M1 | White and Black Caribbean |
| M2 | White and Black African |
| M3 | White and Asian |
| M9 | Any other mixed background |
| White (W) | |
| W1 | British |
| W2 | Irish |
| W9 | Any other White background |