CCTV of Charterhouse Street at 8:30 - 8:35 on Friday 13th March 2009

Following your Freedom of Information (FOI) request of 16 July 2009, the
City of London (CoL) responds as follows. The CoL does not hold any CCTV
images for the time and place to which your request refers.

Please note that it is not part of the duties of the CoL to monitor the
streets/roads which form part of its local authority area. It only has
cameras to prevent crime relating to its own premises. The CoL does have
CCTV at Smithfield Market (for which it is responsible) in Charterhouse
Street, but the cameras do not look beyond the boundaries of the Market
and therefore would not have captured an incident in the roadway. In
addition, the CCTV for the Market for that period has been routinely
overwritten.

The City of London Police (COLP) is the data controller for the CCTV which
monitors the roads/streets and other public areas within the City
boundaries. (The CoL has some access to this CCTV, but the only captured
images from it which the CoL is permitted to take relate to specific
parking contraventions). Please note that the CoL is legally a separate
body from the COLP for the purpose of compliance with the FOI Act. For
further information about the street CCTV, the FOI contact details for the
COLP are: Freedom of Information Officer, City of London Police, PO Box
36427, 37 Wood Street, London, EC2M 2NP, or Tel: 020-7601 2222. Email:
[1][email address], Website:
[2]http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPo....

We hope that this is of assistance. Please note that the CoL is the local
authority for the 'Square Mile' only, ie the historic City of London and
not London as a whole. Please note also that the FOI Act applies to the
CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. If
you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry under the FOI Act, please make your complaint in writing to email
address: [email address]. For a link to the CoL's FOI
complaints procedure, please visit the following page,
[3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700.

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