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[FOI #4805 email]

Mr David Hansen

Reference: T26042/8 16^th January 2009

Dear Mr Hansen,

Thank you for your e-mail of 15^th December 2008 asking the Home Office to provide its figure for the number of Climate Camp protestors injured by the police. I am afraid that that we do not have such information and I can only suggest that you contact Kent police direct.

During Oral Answers in the House of Commons on 15^th December, in response to further queries from David Taylor MP and David Howarth MP, Vernon Coaker explained that he had been informed that 70 police officers had been hurt, and had assumed that they had been hurt through direct contact, as a result of the protest. He acknowledged that that was clearly not the case and apologised if that had caused anybody to be misled. He informed the House that the National Policing Improvement Agency was producing a de-brief report on Kingsnorth and that he would discuss the conclusions of that report with the public order lead of the Association of Chief Police Officers, with a view to sharing lessons to be learned with police forces across the country.

For ease of reference, I attach links to the House of Commons Hansard debates for 15^th December and 27^th October 2008.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm081215/debtext/81215-0003.htm#column_809

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm081027/debtext/81027-0001.htm#column_549

Yours sincerely

Maggie Ainsworth

Public Order team