Your ref:

Our ref: 20102/133268

19 March 2010

Dear Ms Mercer,

I write to clarify the situation with regards to your Freedom of Information request that you made to West Yorkshire Police on 22 February 2010. You requested the following information:

1) How many deaths in custody have occurred in the last 5 years?

2) Which station was responsible for each person who died? (Eg. Bromley: X deaths. Brixton: Y

deaths. Etc.)

3) How many members of the public are served by the police stations where deaths occurred?

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 Trevor Kerry

Information Management