RESOURCES DIRECTORATE
Corporate Support & Information Services - Data Protection
Police Headquarters, Saunders Lane, Hutton, Preston PR4 5SB

Tel: 01772 413327 Fax: 01772 412123 Email: [Lancashire Constabulary request email]

Mr Adam Bateman

Via WhatDoTheyKnow.com

By Email: [FOI #1807 email] Date 16^th September 2008

Dear Mr Bateman

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION APPLICATION REFERENCE NO: 1303/08

Thank you for your request for information received by Lancashire Constabulary on the 18^th August 2008, which was as follows:-

I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I am interested In the number of times Lancashire Constabulary have been asked to attend a search warrant issued on behalf of the Television Licensing Authority (Capita) or the British Broadcasting corporation within the last twelve months.

Your request has been considered and unfortunately the information you are seeking cannot be supplied at this stage.

The Constabulary's Incident Recording System does not have a specific incident category for searches on behalf of Capita or the BBC. Such incidents would fall under `Code 541 - Police Generated Resource Activities'. Therefore, to find details of such searches all Incident Reports under this code would have to be researched into. As there were 39143 incidents of this nature in the last financial year, it is not possible to complete this research task within the `Appropriate Limit' (as defined in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004). As a result, Section 12 applies and Lancashire Constabulary cannot provide you with this information at present.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in Lancashire Constabulary.

Yours sincerely

Paul Walker

Freedom of Information Disclosure Officer

You have the right to request a re-examination of your case under Lancashire Constabulary's review procedure. If you decide to

request such a review and having followed the Constabulary's full process you are still dissatisfied, then you have

the right to direct your comments to the Information Commissioner who will give it consideration.