Conflict of Interest: Vested Interest Shareholdings by Senior Police Officers

Dear Sirs,

Please provide full details of:

1. The Authority's policy in respect of participation by senior
police officers by way of vested-interest shareholdings in private
limited companies which actively deal in matters which concern day
to day operational policing.

2. Whether and on which dates the Authority has studied the
implications including conflict of interest implications of the
shareholdings held by senior Devon & Cornwall Constabulary (D&CC)
police officers in ACPO (the Association of Chief Police Officers),
a private limited company, which sells for valuable consideration
Sensitive Personal Data (SPD) harvested by D&CC as an inseparable
part of any official or unofficial arrest policy.

3. Control(s) exercised by the Authority in respect of advice
sought and received from their private limited company ACPO by
senior D&CC police officers and implemented into operational
policy.

4. Control(s) exercised by the Authority in respect of determining
and imposing the sources of legal and policy advice upon which
senior police officers of D&CC may rely in the formulation and
implementation of operational policing methods and policy.

5. If the Authority has not considered the potential conflict of
interest implications and the effect upon the unlawful enrichment
of ACPO of the implementation (official or unofficial) of excessive
resort to unnecessary arrest in order to harvest SPD which is the
predictable outcome of such vested-interest shareholdings, what are
the reasons for not acting in the public interest by preventing
senior police officers from participating in the private company
ACPO?

Yours faithfully,

Ian Orlebar

Dear Sirs,

I would clarify my request of 08 10 10 by amending references to
ACPO to include all/any subsidiaries (eg ACPO Criminal Records
Office etc), affiliates and associates whatsoever, and/or any other
organisations of a similar nature whose activities might conflict
with the proper and proportionate exercise of operational
discretion as necessary in a democratic society.

Yours faithfully,

Ian Orlebar

12th October 2010

Dear Sirs,

I lodged a Freedom of Information request with your organisation on
8th October.

Your detailed reply is due not later than 5th November 2010.

I have not heard from you.

Please advise current status of my request.

Yours faithfully,

Ian Orlebar

Dear Devon & Cornwall Police Authority,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Devon & Cornwall
Police Authority's handling of my FOI request 'Conflict of
Interest: Vested Interest Shareholdings by Senior Police Officers'.

If your authority does not supervise and control the police
service, what does it do?

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

Yours faithfully,

Ian Orlebar

Dear Mr Walton,

The 40 working day period from 5th November 2010 as mentioned in
your email of 2nd December having elapsed, I would be obliged to
receive your reply.

Yours sincerely,

Ian Orlebar

Dear Mr Walton,

Another week has passed and your silence is deafening.

When may your reply be expected?

Yours sincerely,

Ian Orlebar

Dear Mr Walton,

Yet another week has passed and your silence is deafening.

When may your reply be expected?

Yours sincerely,

Ian Orlebar

Dear Devon & Cornwall Police Authority,

In view of your failure to review my refused information request
within the statutory time limit as you have confirmed that you
would, together with your continued ignoring of my attempts to
obtain a proper response from you, I have today made formal
complaint to the Information Commissioner.

Yours faithfully,

Ian Orlebar

Dear Mr Walton,

I note your negative response and request further clarification as
follows:

Please advise whether Devon & Cornwall Police Authority has ever
considered the question of membership by any/all police employee(s)
of any organisation which might pose potential conflict of interest
issues in respect of their policing duties, and if so, please
provide full details.

Yours sincerely,

Ian Orlebar