Drugs: Found and Lost

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30 October 2008

Dear Mr Bird,

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

Thank you for your request for information, received at this office on 30
October 2008, in which you requested details of the following:

For each of the last three financial years(05/06)and (06/07) and (07/08)
please state if any drugs seized by your force have then been either lost
or stolen from you or otherwise unaccounted for?
If so, please give a date for each incident along with the type of drug,
the quantity and a brief account of how it was lost/stolen/unaccounted
for.

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 Suffolk 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.

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 chose 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.

We anticipate being able to provide you with information that you have
requested by 27 November 2008.

Should you need to discuss this further please contact the Freedom of
Information Team, on 01473 613919.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Suffolk Constabulary.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team

Gemma Haddock
FOI Co-ordinator

Elaine Fisk
FOI Assistant
Information Compliance Section
Suffolk Constabulary
01473 613919

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24 November 2008

Dear Mr Bird,

Thank you for your request for information dated 30 October 2008
concerning how many drugs seized by your force have then been either lost
or stolen from you or otherwise unaccounted for in the last three
financial years (05/06), (06/07) and (07/08).

This is to inform you that all information relating to your request has
been collated and my response is attached. This request is now complete
and shall be closed immediately.

Should any further information be requested regarding this topic, a
separate request will need to be submitted.

Should you need to discuss this further please contact me, on 01473
613919.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Suffolk Constabulary.

Yours sincerely,

Gemma Haddock
FOI Co-ordinator
Suffolk Constabulary
01473 613919
[email address]

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