Your ref: 20092/101807

Our ref:

10^th December 2009

Dear Mr Old,

I write to clarify the situation with regards to your Freedom of Information request that you made to West Yorkshire Police on 13/11/09. You requested the following information:

Part 9 of Annex "F" (a Determination for Regulation 24 of the

I seek to establish:

(1) whether or not your force complies with Home Office Circular

18/2008 and Police Regulations and Determinations as described

above, by continuing to pay CRTP to a member who, having been

awarded CRTP, is in receipt of temporary salary (NB - "acting up",

NOT temporarily promoted to a higher rank under Regulation 27(b)

and Annex "J").

If you do not so comply:

(2) please advise by what legal authority your force ceases making

such payments; and

(3) please advise what action you take when an inspector, on pay

point 3 (top rate) and in receipt of CRTP, is required to perform

the duties of a chief inspector, whose pay is less than that of

such an officer. NB - the exception set out in paragraph 9 of Part

9 of Annex "F" *DOES NOT APPLY* to temporary salary - it applies

only to temporary promotion under Regulation 27(b).

Due to the high levels of requests we are currently dealing with we anticipate that we will be unable to respond to your request within 20 working days. I would like to apologise in advance for the delay in responding to your request. Please be assured that we will endeavour to send a response out to you as soon as possible.

Further to this we would be grateful if you could inform us by your preferred method (contact details as above) if you still require a response to your request for information. If we do not hear from you within twenty working days from the date of this letter then we will assume that you no longer require the information that you have requested.

Please be assured that if you do still wish for us to proceed then we will be happy to do so.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Yours sincerely

Superintendent Tyron Joyce

Information Management