Homophobic hate crimes reported to police

Dear Mr Henderson

Reference No: 658/2008

Thank you for your request for information dated 24^th October 2008
concerning homophobic hate crime, received on 27^th October 2008.

Could you please clarify whether you would prefer any information
available in calendar or financial year format?

After receiving your reply, your request will then be considered and you will
receive the information requested within the statutory timescale of 20 working
days as defined by the Freedom of Information Act 2000, subject to the
information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third party. If you
choose not to respond then your request will remain unanswered.

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.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Dyfed Powys Police and look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

Cath Butler

Swyddog Gweinyddol/Administrative Officer

Uned Rhyddid Gwybodaeth/Freedom of Information Unit

Pencadlys yr Heddlu/Police Headquarters

Caerfyrddin/Carmarthen

Ffon/Tel: 0845 330 2000 est/ext: 23586

Llinell Uniongyrchol/Direct Line: 01267 226596

[1][Dyfed Powys Police request email]

Dyfed Powys Police provides you the right to request a re-examination of your
case under its review procedure. If you decide to request such a review and
having followed the Force'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.

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Dear Mr Henderson,

FOI REF: 150/2009

Thank you for your e-mail. Your original request was not answered as
we have been awaiting your clarification since October 2008. However
your request has been allocated a new reference number, and will now be
considered. We aim to provide a response within the statutory timescale
of 20 working days i.e. 18 March 2009 as defined by the Act, subject to
the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Dyfed Powys Police 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 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 take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Dyfed Powys Police.

Yours sincerely

Cath Butler

Swyddog Gweinyddol/Administrative Officer
Uned Rhyddid Gwybodaeth/Freedom of Information Unit
Pencadlys yr Heddlu/Police Headquarters
Caerfyrddin/Carmarthen
Ffon/Tel: 0845 330 2000 est/ext: 23586
Llinell Uniongyrchol/Direct Line: 01267 226596
[Dyfed Powys Police request email]

Dyfed Powys Police provides you the right to request a re-examination of
your case under its review procedure. 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.

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Dear Mr Henderson,

Reference No: 150/2009

I write in connection with your request for information.

I regret to inform you that Dyfed Powys Police has not been able to
complete its response to your request by the date originally stated due to
the high volume of requests currently being processed. Also due to this
we are currently not in a position to provide you with a completion date
for your request.

May I apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you wish to discuss this
delay please contact me.

Thank you for your interest in Dyfed Powys Police.

Yours sincerely

Cath Butler

Cath Butler

Swyddog Gweinyddol/Administrative Officer

Uned Rhyddid Gwybodaeth/Freedom of Information Unit

Pencadlys yr Heddlu/Police Headquarters

Caerfyrddin/Carmarthen

Ffon/Tel: 0845 330 2000 est/ext: 23586

Llinell Uniongyrchol/Direct Line: 01267 226596

[1][Dyfed Powys Police request email]

Dyfed Powys 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 Force'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.

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Dear Mr Henderson

I acknowledge receipt of your e-mail dated the 18 March 2009 and received
today the 19 March 2009 requesting that Dyfed Powys Police review the
handling of your request 'Homophobic hate crimes reported to police".

My understanding of the issues you have raised are that you consider that
the Force has rejected your request because "...the police force does not
have the time" and that you find this unacceptable.

Your request for a review will be passed to the relevant person that
conducts such reviews and every effort will be made to have a response to
the review to you by the 19 May 2009 however if it becomes clear that the
review will not be completed by this date you will be contacted. In the
meantime we will continue to process your request and we aim to provide
you with a response to your request as soon as possible.

It was necessary for the Force to close your original request of the 24^th
October 2008 as we had not received a response for our request for
clarification within three months; your request was therefore closed on
the 26 January 2009. However following your clarification e-mail of the
18 February 2009 we commenced the request process again. However
unfortunately it has not been possible to provide you with a response
within the statutory time limit due to the volume of Freedom of
Information requests the Force has received which has created a backlog of
requests awaiting action by the FOI Unit. May I apologise on behalf of
the Force for any inconvenience caused.

If you wish to discuss this matter prior to Dyfed Powys Police' response
please contact me.

Yours sincerely

Debby Jones MBA

Pennaeth Rhyddid Gwybodaeth/Head of FOI

Uned Rhyddid Gwybodaeth/Freedom of Information Unit

Pencadlys yr Heddlu/Police Headquarters

Caerfyrddin/Carmarthen

Ffon/Tel: 0845 330 2000 est/ext 23442

Llinell Uniongyrchol/Direct Line: 01267 226596

[1][Dyfed Powys Police request email]

Dyfed Powys Police provides you the right to request a re-examination of your
case under its review procedure. If you decide to request such a review and
having followed the Force'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.

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Dear Mr Henderson

Reference No: 150/2009

I write in connection with your request for information dated and received
on the 18^th February 2009 regarding homophobic hate crimes reported to
the police.

Your request for information has now been considered and firstly I am
obliged under s1 (1) (a) of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 to
tell you whether the information is held by the Force. Please see the
attached response document which indicates what information is held by the
Force and the exemptions applied concerning the non release of the
information in whole or in part.

In relation to the first part of your request, the information sought is
provided in the attached response

However where exemptions have been applied, Section 17 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 requires Dyfed Powys Police, when refusing to provide
such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the
applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the
exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be
apparent) why the exemption applies.

The following exemption has been applied to all the information you have
requested in relation to the second part of your request.

Section 12 - The cost of compliance exceeds the Appropriate Limit

The cost of providing you with the information is above the amount to
which we are legally required to respond i.e. the cost of locating and
retrieving the information exceeds the "appropriate level" as stated in
the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.
It is estimated that it would exceed 18 hours (i.e. minimum of 20 hours)
to comply with this part of your request. The regulations can be located @

[1]www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2004/20043244.htm

It has been calculated that there are 80 records held which may contain
information applicable to the request. In order to retrieve and collate
the information requested would require opening and researching each and
every record. Going on the estimate that it would take a minimum of 15
minute to research each record, to complete the task would take a minimum
of 20 hours.

Accordingly, applying the same principle the following time estimates have
been calculated for the following years:

In 2007 there were 17 records x 15 minutes = 4.25hrs

In 2006 there were 35 records x 15 minutes = 8.75hrs

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter acts
as a Refusal Notice for this part of your request. However, you may wish
to refine and resubmit your request so that it reduces the time shown
above to fall within the 18 hours. Please contact me if you would like
some advice on refining your request.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Dyfed Powys Police. I would also like to apologise for the delay in
responding which has been due to the volume of requests received and the
workload associated with those requests.

Yours sincerely

Colin. R. Matthews

Swyddog Rhyddid Gwybodaeth - Freedom of Information Officer

Uned Rhyddid Gwybodaeth - Freedom of Information Unit

Pencadlys Heddlu - Dyfed-Powys Police Headquarters

Caerfyrddin - Carmarthen

Ffon/Tel: 0845 330 2000 est/ext 23444

Uniongyrchol/Direct Line : 01267 226596

e-bost/e-mail - [Dyfed Powys Police request email]

Dyfed Powys 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 Force'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.

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Dear Mr Henderson

Please find attached the response to your request for an appeal in respect
of the delay in dealing with the above request.

Yours sincerely

(Sent on behalf of M D Stevenson)

Jane Barton

Swyddog Cefnogi Prosiect / Project Support Officer

Swyddog Arweiniol Gweithredu MoPI a Data Symudol Chynorthwywraig yr Uned
Rhyddid Gwybodaeth /

MoPI Implementation Lead and Mobile Data and Freedom of Information
Assistant

Pencadlys yr Heddlu/Police Headquarters

Caerfyrddin/Carmarthen

Ffon/Tel: 0845 330 2000 est/ext 23587

Llinell Uniongyrchol/Direct Line: 01267 226596

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Dyfed-Powys 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 Force'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.

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