Common Purpose expenditure and invoices

Dear Mr Maclean

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

Thank you for your request for information, received 23 June 2008
concerning training in Common Purpose .

Your request is being considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days, as defined by the Act, subject
to the application of any statutory exemptions. Where consideration is
being given to the application of any exemptions the 20 working day
timescale may be extended under the terms of the Act to a period
considered reasonable depending on the nature and circumstances of your
request. In such cases you will be notified and, where possible, a revised
time-scale will be indicated. In all cases we shall attempt to deal with
your request at the earliest opportunity.

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information requested, where the request exceeds the statutory limit.
In such cases you will be informed in writing and the 20 working day
timescale will be suspended until we receive payment from you or your
request is modified and /or reduced. If you chose not to make full payment
or modify your request then the request will remain unanswered.

Your request may require either full or partial transfer to another public
authority. You will be informed if your request is transferred.

Yours sincerely

Tom Hornshaw
FOI Unit, Administrative Assistant
Corporate Services Department
Email: [email address]
Internal: 7800 2070
External: 0845 113 5000 ext 7800 2070

Our vision: To reduce crime and make people feel safer

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Dear Mr Maclean

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

Your request for information, received 23 June 2008 concerning training in
common purpose, has now been considered.

This is not something West Midlands Police (WMP) train as a matter of
course or sponsored at force level. However that is not to say that
individuals have not undergone training under local arrangements or of
their own initiative. In order to retrieve this information would involve
approaching each member of staff.

Please note that researching each individual case would exceed the
appropriate limit (FOIA, s.12 (1)). For West Midlands Police, the
appropriate limit is set at £450, as prescribed by the Freedom of
Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations
2004, S.I. 3244.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter acts
as a refusal notice.

I am sorry that we cannot be of further help at this time.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Unit

West Midlands Police provides you with the right to request a
re-examination of your case under its review procedure. If, following a
re-examination of your case by West Midlands Police you are still
dissatisfied, you have a further right of appeal to the Information
Commissioner.

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