Corporate Review Department
Information Management Section
PO Box 9
Laburnum Road
Wakefield
WF1 3QP
Tel : 01924 292486 / 292202 / 292719
Fax : 01924 292726
Email : [West Yorkshire Police request email]
Website : www.westyorkshire.police.uk
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
Dear Mr Walker
FOI Reference No : FOI-20094/4536
Thank you for your email dated and received by my office on the 06 Oct 2009. You have requested
the following information under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
In November 2008 the membership list of the British National Party
(BNP) was published online. On September 1, 2009 a disgruntled
former official Matt Single was convicted in relation to this for
offences under the Data Protection Act.
I refer to Schedule 1 of The Data Protection Principles.
Under Schedule 1, any use of 'sensitive personal data' must be
processed
only when at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met, and
at
least one of the conditions in Schedule 3 is also met.
1. Please tell me if West Yorkshire Police has processed any data
relating to the leaked British National Party membership list.
2. Please tell me which of the conditions in Schedule 2 and
Schedule 3
were met when processing sensitive personal data?
3. Has sensitive personal data been used for any purposes other
than
comparing against the West Yorkshire Police personnel database?
4. Who was responsible for the decision to compare sensitive
personnel
data against West Yorkshire Police's personnel data?
5. What were the grounds for such a decision?
6. I request the minutes of any meeting held to come to such a
decision.
7. Please describe the process used in making such a decision and
whether the consequences of this decision, if
any, were assessed.
Your request will now be considered and 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 West Yorkshire Police may be unable to achieve this
deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised time-scale at the earliest opportunity.
In exceptional circumstances, there may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you have requested. 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 a payment
then your request will remain unanswered.
Yours sincerely
Bronwen Salmon
Freedom of Information Project Officer
pp
Steven Harding
Head of Information Management
The information supplied in connection with this application will be used for the purpose of the administering of this request and to ensure the
accuracy of Police systems.
