In pursuing our mission, we will be guided by three principles:

We are committed to ensuring that police officers and staff uphold the sex-based rights which support women and men’s rights and needs at work, including the protected characteristics of sex, pregnancy and maternity and sexual orientation set out in the Equality Act 2010; and that these rights are balanced against other rights, lawful and necessary and in accordance with the Code of Ethics set out by the College of Policing.

We are committed to the protected belief (covered by the protected characteristic of religion and belief in the Equality Act 2010) that biological sex is binary and immutable, that biological sex matters for both women and men in our everyday lives including for our rights and needs in the workplace, and that biological sex must not be conflated with the concepts of gender or gender identity. Police officers and staff who hold this protected belief must not be marginalised, disadvantaged or discriminated against.

We are committed to helping our employers to meet their Public Sector Equality Duty, including to ‘foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not’, by encouraging a diversity of voices and open and respectful dialogue and tolerance between those with differing beliefs and experiences.