Common Purpose Training

Dean Long

[1][FOI #29428 email]

22 February 2010

Dear Mr Long

Freedom of Information Request - Reference No: 20100099

Thank you for your request for information in relation to:

1. Has anyone from South Yorkshire Police ever attended a Common
Purpose training course? If so, please list the courses they have
attended, their dates, their cost and details of who paid for them.

2. Are there any Common Purpose 'graduates' in South Yorkshire
Police?

By 'Common Purpose', I mean the training organisation of that name:
http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx By 'Common Purpose
graduate', I refer to a specific class of person who has passed the
advanced Common Purpose courses.

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Martha Robinson
Information Compliance Clerk
South Yorkshire Police
Information Compliance Unit
Professional Standards Department
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Churchill Way
Sheffield
S35 2PY

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Dean Long To FOI requests at South
<[FOI #29428 email]> Yorkshire Police
<[South Yorkshire Police request email]>
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Subject Freedom of Information
request - Common Purpose
Training

Dear South Yorkshire Police,

Common Purpose training

1. Has anyone from South Yorkshire Police ever attended a Common
Purpose training course? If so, please list the courses they have
attended, their dates, their cost and details of who paid for them.

2. Are there any Common Purpose 'graduates' in South Yorkshire
Police?

By 'Common Purpose', I mean the training organisation of that name:
http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx By 'Common Purpose
graduate', I refer to a specific class of person who has passed the
advanced Common Purpose courses.

Yours faithfully,

Dean Long

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03 March 2010

Dean Long
What do they know

[1][FOI #29428 email]

Dear Mr Long

Freedom of Information Request - Reference No: 20100099

Thank you for your request in relation to.

1. Has anyone from South Yorkshire Police ever attended a Common
Purpose training course? If so, please list the courses they have
attended, their dates, their cost and details of who paid for them.

2. Are there any Common Purpose 'graduates' in South Yorkshire
Police?

By 'Common Purpose', I mean the training organisation of that name:
http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx By 'Common Purpose
graduate', I refer to a specific class of person who has passed the
advanced Common Purpose courses.

RESPONSE

1. 15 individuals have attended a Common Purpose course (one person has
attended two separate courses). Please see the table below for the
remainder of the information requested:

+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Name of Event | Start date | Days attended | COST (**) |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 22-Jan-04 | 8 | 2625 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 23-Jun-05 | 2 | 2840 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 26-Jan-06 | 2 | 1000 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 26-Jan-06 | 2 | 1000 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 01-Sep-06 | 1 | 2840 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 18-Oct-06 | 2 | 950 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 01-Feb-07 | 6 | 2600 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 01-Feb-07 | 6 | 2600 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 19-Jun-07 | 2 | 2600 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 19-Jun-07 | 2 | 2600 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 17-Oct-07 | 2 | 1000 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 07-Feb-08 | 6 | 2625 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 15-Sep-08 | 6 | 1312.5 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 15-Sep-08 | 6 | 1312.5 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 15-Oct-08 | 2 | 1000 |
|----------------+------------+---------------+-----------|
| Common Purpose | 09-Mar-09 | 6 | 2625 |
+---------------------------------------------------------+

South Yorkshire Police has paid for this training.
2. None of the training has been identified as ***advanced***.

If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been
handled, you can request a review by following the advice contained in the
separate notice attached to this correspondence:

If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint,
you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
The Information Commissioner's Office,
Wycliffe House,
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Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: 08456 306060 or 01625 545745
Website: www.ico.gov.uk
There is no charge for making an appeal.

Yours sincerely

Martha Robinson
Information Compliance Clerk
South Yorkshire Police
Information Compliance Unit
Professional Standards Department
Unit 20 Sheffield 35A Business Park
Churchill Way
Sheffield
S35 2PY

Email - [South Yorkshire Police request email]

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South Yorkshire Police provides you the right to request a re-examination
of your case under its review procedure (copy enclosed). If you decide to
request such a review and having followed the Constabulary***s full
process you are still dissatisfied, then you have the right to direct your
comments to the Information Commissioner who will give it consideration.

The South Yorkshire Police in complying with their statutory duty under
sections 1 and 11 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to release the
enclosed information will not breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents
Act 1988. However, the rights of the copyright owner of the enclosed
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