Mr Kevin Sharp

Information Services Officer

Information Governance Unit

HQ, Woburn Road

Kempston, Bedford, MK43 9AX

Tel 01234 842213

Fax 01234 842133

Email: k[email address]

Our Ref: KS/2009/00702 01 October 2009

Mr Derek Canning.

[FOI #19104 email]

Dear Mr Canning,

REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT Reference No F-2009-00702

I write in connection with your request for information received on 1^st October 2009. I note you seek access to the following information:

1] Please supply all the information that you hold on the criteria for releasing pictures of Semi naked children to the RSPB and the safeguard to protect children from such events that have recently

occurred.

2] Also, please supply all the information that you hold on the criteria for allowing the RSPB access to pictures of children and where children actual live while on police raids and the safeguardsto protect our children. For example do the RSPB have CRB checks like everyone else who could come in contact with children and do the police check the CRB checks on each person on the raid?

3] Given the two questions above please supply all the information that you hold on giving the RSPB unsupervised access to children's pictures and where the children actually live.

Please address your legal duty to supply the information requested from a public body and the overriding duty of care to protect children from the potential of any threat to their safety.

I hope you can put our concerns to rest by complying with the legal duty supply the information requested and the information shows there is no potential threat to children.

Your request will now be considered in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act.) You will receive a response within the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third party. In some circumstances Bedfordshire Police may be unable to achieve this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised timescale at the earliest opportunity.

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment from you. If you chose not to make payment then your request will remain unanswered.

Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in Bedfordshire Police. Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter please do not hesitate to contact me quoting the above reference number.

Yours sincerely,

Kevin Sharp

Information Services Officer