Anti-Social Behaviour

February 11, 2009

Dear Mr Caughey,

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

I write in connection with your request for information dated February 9, 2009 which was received by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on February 9, 2009. I note you seek access to the following information:

Anti Social Behaviour - Kansas Avenue Flats

This request will be dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. A response should be sent to you within 20 working days. The Freedom of Information team will advise you in writing if there are any delays in responding to your request and will keep you advised of progress.

In the event where the cost of complying with the request would exceed the "appropriate level", which is fixed at £450, as stated in the Freedom of Information Regulations 2004, it is the policy of the PSNI to close the request. You will however be notified of this decision and given an opportunity to refine and resubmit the request.

If your request requires either full or partial transference to another public authority in order to answer your query, again, you will be notified.
If you have any queries regarding your request please write or contact the Freedom of Information Team on 028 9070 0164. Please remember to quote the reference number listed above in any future communications with the Freedom of Information Team.

If you are dissatisfied in any way with the handling of your request, you have the right to request a review.You should do this as soon as possible, or in any case within two months of the date of issue of this letter.In the event that you require a review to be undertaken, you can do so by writing to the Head of Freedom of Information, PSNI Headquarters, 65 Knock Road, Belfast, BT5 6LE or by emailing [email address].

If following an internal review, carried out by an independent decision maker, you were to remain dissatisfied in any way with the handling of the request you may make a complaint,under Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act, to the Information Commissioner's Office and ask that they investigate whether the PSNI has complied with the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. You can write to the Information Commissioner at Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. In most circumstances the Information Commissioner will not investigate a complaint unless an internal review procedure has been carried out, however the Commissioner has the option to investigate the matter at his discretion.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Gordon Reid
A/Head of Freedom of Information

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Subject: F-2009-00533
March 10, 2009

Dear Mr. Caughey,

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

I write in connection with your request for information dated February
9, 2009 which was received on February 9, 2009 concerning:

Anti Social Behaviour - Kansas Avenue Flats

I regret to inform you the Police Service of Northern Ireland have not
been able to respond to your request within the statutory timescale. I
am currently expediting this matter with the Record Owner.

I now advise you that the amended date for a response is March 23, 2009.
I can assure you that every effort will be made to respond to your
request within this new timescale.

May I apologise for any inconvenience caused. I you have any queries
regarding your request please do not hesitate to contact me on 028 9070
0164. When contacting the Freedom of Information Team, please quote the
reference number listed at the beginning of this email.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Gordon Reid
A/Head of Freedom of Information

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Subject: F-2009-00533

April 1, 2009

Dear Mr. Caughey,

I note your request for an internal review of this Freedom of Information
request.

As you have made a request for an internal review before having received
our response to your request, I can only assume that the reason for this
is due to the delay in responding to your initial request.

I had previously written to you on March 10 2009 advising you of the delay
and of an amended response date of March 23 2009. I would again offer my
sincere apologies that I have not been able to respond to your request
within the amended timescale. The main reasons for this have been an
unanticipated, high volume of new requests received since the new year and
unavoidable staff movements within the Department.

For your information the staffing issues mention above have now been
addressed and we are endeavouring to clear a backlog of requests at the
earliest possible opportunity.

The full response to your request has now been released to you. I
appreciate that this does not alter the fact that we have failed to comply
with the act by not responding to you within 20 working days but, in light
of the fact that you have now received the response and we are addressing
the issues that caused the delay, I was wondering if you still wanted to
proceed with an Internal Review.

Please advise.

Yours sincerely,

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Subject: F-2009-00533

April 1, 2009

Dear Mr. Caughey,

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

I write in connection with your request for information dated February
9, 2009 which was received by the Police Service of Northern Ireland on
February 9, 2009 concerning:

"Please send me details of incidents of ASB at Kansas Avenue Flats,
Belfast, reported to you during 2008."

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request.

This is to inform you that the Police Service of Northern Ireland has
now completed its search for the information you requested. The
decision has been taken to disclose the located information to you in
full.

Please find attached records numbered 2005.pdf

If you have any queries regarding your request or the decision please do
not hesitate to contact me on 028 9070 0164. When contacting the
Freedom of Information Team, please quote the reference number listed at
the beginning of this email.

If you are dissatisfied in any way with the handling of your request,
you have the right to request a review.You should do this as soon as
possible, or in any case within two months of the date of issue of this
letter.In the event that you require a review to be undertaken, you can
do so by writing to the Head of Freedom of Information, PSNI
Headquarters, 65 Knock Road, Belfast, BT5 6LE or by emailing
[PSNI request email]

If following an internal review, carried out by an independent decision
maker, you were to remain dissatisfied in any way with the handling of
the request you may make a complaint,under Section 50 of the Freedom of
Information Act, to the Information Commissioner's Office and ask that
they investigate whether the PSNI has complied with the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act. You can write to the Information
Commissioner at Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water
Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. In most circumstances the Information
Commissioner will not investigate a complaint unless an internal review
procedure has been carried out, however the Commissioner has the option
to investigate the matter at his discretion.

Please be advised that PSNI replies under Freedom of Information may be
released into the public domain via our website @ www.psni.police.uk

Personal details in respect of your request have, where applicable, been
removed to protect confidentiality.

Yours sincerely

Mr Gordon Reid
A/Head of Freedom of Information

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Dear Mr Caughey,

Attachment re-sent. If there are any difficulties with the attachment, a
hard copy can be sent.

FOI Team
PSNI Brooklyn

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Dear Mr Caughey

A hard copy has been sent by Royal Mail as outlined in my previous email
to your other email address.

Yours sincerely,

PSNI FOI Team.

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Dear Mr Caughey

The response was sent to you at the following address:

Mr. Michael Caughey
17 Kansas Avenue Flats
Belfast
Antrim
BT15 5AY
Northern Ireland

Yours sincerely

PSNI FOI Team

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Dear Mr Caughey

Again, please accept my apologies for the error as regards your address
which has caused a further delay in you receiving the requested
information. I hope this has not caused too much inconvenience for you.

A hard copy of the email attachment has now been posted to you at 27
Kansas Avenue Flats.

I can assure you that the difficulties that you have experienced in
receiving a response by email attachment are highly unusual. To assist
you I have again attached the pdf file to this email in the event that
you may now be able to receive/open it.

Yours sincerely

PSNI FOI Team

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