Oral question AQO 3292/22-27

Oral question by Mrs Linda Dillon on 5 March 2026.

MLA: Mrs Linda Dillon
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 5 March 2026
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 3292/22-27
Department: The Executive Office
Business: To the First Minister and deputy First Minister
Assembly identifier: Document 474847

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Text

To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, further to their work towards a united and shared society, whether an assessment has been made of how community relations can be strengthened by having the composition of the PSNI reflect the diversity of the community it serves.

47 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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Assessment

Not flagged

Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.

Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.36 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.83).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.89).
Subject area: Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations.
The overall probability was low and the text did not adopt any identity-based framing.

This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.

Jev’s structured answers

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.20	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.02	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.10	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.03	No
Controversy escalation	0.12	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.83	Yes
Overall judgement	0.36	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.89
Reports or questions it	0.04
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.07

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.96
Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers	0.04
No identity-related subject	0.00
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:36 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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