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Watchkeeper made this Freedom of Information request to Avon and Somerset Constabulary
The request was refused by Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
From: Watchkeeper
5 February 2011
Dear Avon & Somerset Constabulary,
For the years 2005 - 2009 inclusive please state on how many
occasions officers attended the execution of search warrants
obtained by TV Licensing.
Yours faithfully,
Watchkeeper
From: #Freedom of Information Requests
Avon and Somerset Constabulary
7 February 2011
Corporate Information Management Department
Force Headquarters, PO Box 37, Valley Road,
Portishead, Bristol, BS20 8QJ
Facsimile 01275 814667
Private
Watchkeeper
[FOI #61295 email]
Our Reference 090/11
Your reference
Date 7th February 2011
To whom it may concern,
Thank you for your request for information dated 5th February regarding
attendance at TV licensing search warrant executions.
Under section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 you are required to
submit your name in order for your request to be valid. Therefore, I will
be unable to start to process your request until you have provided us with
your full name.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Officer
Corporate Information Management Department
Please note;
1. Requests and responses may be published on Avon and Somerset
Constabulary's website (within 24 hours), some of which may
contain a link to additional information, which may provide
you with further clarification.
2. Whilst we may verbally discuss your request with you in order
to seek clarification, all other communication should be made
in writing.
Avon and Somerset Constabulary provides you with the right to request a
re-examination of your case under its review procedure.
From: Watchkeeper
7 February 2011
Dear Freedom of Information Officer,
Thank you for your kind response to my FoI request which includes a
request that I provide my name. I appreciate the humour of the
situation whereby you ask for my name but withhold yours. I hope
you appreciate it, too!
I note that the Information Commissioner is on record as having
said "Even when an obvious pseudonym has been used, as good
practice a public authority should still consider the request even
though technically it can be regarded as invalid. This approach
could be adopted in cases where identity is not relevant to the
request and, in view of the general principle within the FOIA of
disclosure to the world at large, where the authority is content to
disclose the information".
This case meets both of the Commissioner's criteria. My identity is
not relevant to the request (which is simply for a set of 5
numbers) and disclosure, on the publicly-accessible Website
whatdotheyknow.com and also perhaps on your own Website, is
certainly to the world at large and not just to myself. In any
event, any name which I provide carries no guarantee that that is
who I am.
Please note that other public authorities are content to release
information to obviously pseudonymous individuals.
Are you going to insist on this point? If I may repeat the
Commissioner, "as good practice a public authority should still
consider the request".
Yours sincerely,
Watchkeeper
From: #Freedom of Information Requests
Avon and Somerset Constabulary
18 February 2011
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your email below. Your points are noted and the quote from
the ICO is correct in as far as we should consider the request. I am
writing to you today to inform you that your request has been considered
and when the use of a qualified exemption is being considered, section 8
of the Act must be complied with. Therefore, as previously advised, in
order to process your enquiry further I will require a name in line with
Section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Your request is currently on hold as we await the required information.
Once this is done we will then re-open your request.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
Corporate Information Management Department
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