Driving Permits

Dear N Smith

Thank you for your request for information received via letter in this
office on 7^th October 2009. This request will be dealt with under the
terms of the Freedom Of Information Act 2000. Details of the request
received:-

I wanted to enquire about the driving permits offered by your Force to
Police Officers. The questions I have are:

1) What levels of driving permits are offered?

2) What do each of the driving permits allow the holder to do?

3) What training is required for each of the driving permits and how are
the candidates assessed? How long in length are the courses for each of
the respective driving permits?,

4) Are any of the driving permits offered by your Force, offered in a
modular basis, (i.e. are they offered in modules of 1 week at a time until
the course is complete etc),

5) Which of the permits are available to Special Constables?

6) If any modular courses are offered, are the available to Special
Constables?

7) How many Special Constables in your Force have driving permits which
allow them to respond (i.e. use blue lights, sirens and allowed the holder
to utilise the relevant exemptions afforded to them in law with respect of
speeding, going through red lights etc),

I would appreciate any information that is available, in particular the
information that relates to Special Constables.

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Cumbria Constabulary may be unable to achieve
this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised
time-scale at the earliest opportunity.

In the event that your requirements change or you no longer wish to
receive a response to your request, I would be grateful if you could
advise me of this as soon as possible.

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and
the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment
from you. If you choose not to make a payment then your request will
remain unanswered.

Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.

I would like to thank you for your interest in Cumbria Constabulary.

Regards

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Dear N Smith

Please find a response from Cumbria Constabulary to your request for
information concerning driving permits

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request

Thank you
Miss Jones

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