It is vitally important that as a public authority, we persist in working to eliminate racial discrimination and to promote equality of opportunity and good race relations.
Under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, South Wales Police Authority has a general duty to have due regard to the need to:
a) Eliminate unlawful racial discrimination
b) Promote equality of opportunity
c) Promote good relations between people of different racial groups
This duty applies to the way we carry out all our functions. In other words, we just seek to ensure that we eliminate racial discrimination in everything that we do and promote race equality and fairness for all racial groups.
The Authority also has specific duties under the Act. These include the duty to monitor our employment procedures in terms of ethnicity and the duty to publish a Race Equality Scheme which sets out how we will meet the general duties above.
This is the third Race Equality Scheme of the Authority. We are pleased that significant changes have been made to promote race equality in the Authority in the six years since the introduction of the first Scheme.
We are also aware that there is room for improvement however, and we will work diligently to achieve the aims of this new Scheme.
If you would like to have your say on our Race Equality Scheme, please click on the link below.
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