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Can you please supply any guidance or rules covering the following issues especially any instructions given to the police and the RSPB?

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From: ross errington

28 April 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Can you please supply any guidance or rules covering the following
issues especially any instructions given to the police and the RSPB
on search warrant matters?

1] Can the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds legally
caution me?
2] Can the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds legally swear
out a search warrant at a magistrates Court under the Police and
Criminal Evidence Act 1984 s15?
3] Can the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds legally and
actively search for evidence without the police next to them even
if the RSPB are mentioned on a search warrant and after they have
been told to leave by the land owner?
4] Can the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds legally search
by themselves, without any police officer in site, someone
property, given the fact that the RSPB are only on the premise to
advice on what the police find?
5] Can the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds legally take
primary evidence and property from the person’s home that is being
searched straight to the RSPB Head Quarters or does all evidence
have to be taken to a police station and stay at the police station
involved in the raid where it can be seen and supervised while the
evidence is investigated?
6] Can the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds legally help
the police search someone's home via a search warrant that does not
name them at all and they have been told to leave by the owner of
the property as he is worried about the RSPB’S motives?

Yours faithfully,

Ross Errington

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From: ross errington

1 June 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's
handling of my FOI request 'Can you please supply any guidance or
rules covering the following issues especially any instructions
given to the police and the RSPB?'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ca...

Yours sincerely,

ross errington

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1 June 2009


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Thank you for your e-mail enquiry of 28/04/2009 2:13:32 PM

A reply is attached.

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From: Information Access
Home Office

2 June 2009

Dear Mr Errington

Thank you for your e-mail of 1 June in which you ask for an internal
review of the handling of your request for information about instructions
given to the police and RSPB. I have been asked to carry out that review
and can confirm that I was not involved in the consideration of your
initial request.

As you have not said in which way you are dissatisfied with the response
you were sent by the unit considering your initial request, I shall
interpret your complaint to be about the time taken to reply and the fact
that the unit has said the Home Office does not hold any of the
information you requested.

I hope to send you a full reply no later than 27 July.

Yours sincerely

Steve Kirk

Information Access Team

Information Management Service

Financial and Commercial Group

4th Floor, Seacole Building (NE)

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

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From: ross errington

4 June 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's
handling of my FOI request 'Can you please supply any guidance or
rules covering the following issues especially any instructions
given to the police and the RSPB?'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ca...

DEFRA say it is nothing to do with them so he has responsibility in
relation to my information request?

Yours sincerely,

ross errington

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From: Information Access
Home Office

10 July 2009


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Dear Mr Errington

Please see our reply to your recent complaint about the handling of a
freedom of Information request you made.

Yours sincerely

Steve Kirk

Information Access Team

Information Management Service

Financial and Commercial Group

4th Floor, Seacole Building (NE)

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

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Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.

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