Career of John Stalker

Dear Sir or Madam,

Could you please send me copies of correspondence, documents, memos
etc held by the Home Office in relation to the suspension of the
former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police John
Stalker from duty in 1986 and his removal from what was commonly
known as the "shoot to kill" inquiry in Northern Ireland.

Yours faithfully,

John Reith

Dear Sir or Madam,

I have yet to receive a formal reply to my FoI request which is now
two weeks overdue. Could you please let me know what is happening
with it.

Yours sincerely,

John Reith

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 'Career of John Stalker'.

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,

John Reith

Dear Mr Bragaglia,
Thank you for getting back to me. To be frank your response has at
least been a bit more personal than that from the NIO who didn't
even bother to edit the bit where it says '(insert date)' in their
pro-forma letter when explaining that they would require at least
another month to get back to me (I sent them the FoI request at the
same time as I sent one to the Home Office.)
I appreciate that my request may be more complex than I had perhaps
imagined it might be, but to be honest I am slightly annoyed that
no one bothered to point this out when they sent me the first
letter saying they would require an extension. Surely someone could
have said 'this is going to take at least three months' and replied
to me accordingly?
Instead what I got was a string of emails - yours being the latest
- saying, 'oh, just another month and we should be able to get back
to you.'
It's now going to be six months since my request. Surely whoever
got my letter in the first place can tell the difference between
what can be done in one month and what takes six?
Can you at least give me some sort of sense where you are with the
request? The number of pages of documents still to be gone through,
what is being done with them?
Because all I have is the bland formal letters the possibilities
go from it's been sitting on someone's desk for five months and
someone found it the other day and thought 'we ought to do
something about this', to someone having to go through 10,000 pages
and decide what to redact. I'm not suggesting that the first is at
all likely, merely that it would be nice to at least have a bit
more information as to how my request is progressing.
Yours sincerely,

John Reith

Dear Mr Bragaglia ,
Incidentally, here is an excerpt from the letter I was sent by
Diana Pottinger on the 27th May regarding my request for an
internal review of the way the case had been handled.

I am aware of the fact that you have still not received a response
to your request. I offer my sincere apologies for this. However, I
understand that an apology was issued on 8th May, and action is now
being taken to ensure that the request is dealt with as a matter of
urgency.

Two months later you write to me to tell me that it is now being
dealt with 'as a matter of urgency.' I appreciate that you say it
has now been escalated as a priority matter, but you can perhaps
understand my frustrations.
Yours sincerely,

John Reith

Dear Mr Bragaglia,
I put the same request in to the NIO as I did to the Home Office.
It took them about three weeks to tell me the request, as submitted
was going to be too broad and advising I narrow the scope. It has
taken the Home Office six months to tell me exactly the same thing.
That includes me raising as an issue the time it was taking to get
a response and asking for an internal review. I appreciate that it
may have been wrongly allocated in the first place, but what faith
am I meant to have if I am told that basically the internal review
didn't pick up that the case had been handed to the wrong people?
I would like to refine the request to
Could you please send me copies of correspondence, documents, memos
etc held by the Home Office in relation to the suspension of the
former
Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police John Stalker
from duty in 1986 and his removal from the Stalker-Sampson inquiry
in Northern Ireland that cover the period April 1986- April 1987.

As the Home Office has been working on the case for the last six
months I am assuming I should be able to get a full response within
the next 20 working days.

Yours sincerely,
John Reith

Yours sincerely,

John Reith

Dear Bragaglia John,
Care to tell me what is happening with this as I have not heard
anything for over three months......

Yours sincerely,

John Reith