Your ref: 20104/14277

Our ref:

8^th February 2010

Dear Mr Bennett,

I write to clarify the situation with regards to your Freedom of Information request that you made to West Yorkshire Police on 8/1/2010. You requested the following information:

1. Please provide the total numbers of officers by rank within your force for 2009 2. How many of those officers were assigned to response duties in 2009 3. What are the non response administerial departments within your force? 4. How many police officers are assigned to each of these departments, by rank?

CLARIFICATION RECEIVED 25.1.10 ******

By "Response Duty" we mean "Operational" officers assigned to respond to calls from the public presumably those on shift duties who would attend calls from the public such as beat officers, police vehicle drivers dog officers traffic etc.(Inspector Sergeant, PC). Operational Support officers to be listed seperately by role and rank if possible. By "Administerial" we mean those officers specifically assigned to

non operational roles that are office based such as audit police administrative roles that by virue of the job mean that they work in an office for their tour as opposed to responding to public calls." We understand you may call this "Organisational & Organisational Support".

Again officers to be listed separately by role and rank if possible.

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