Illegal stop and search activities by Fife police

David Hansen made this Freedom of Information request to Fife Constabulary

Fife Constabulary did not have the information requested.

From: David Hansen

10 June 2010

Dear Fife Constabulary,

I refer to the article at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/t...
and note that one of the guilty parties is reported to be Fife
police.

I assume the Telegraph is correct, if it is not then please say so.

If you have nothing to hide you will have no difficulty in quickly
providing the following information about your illegal activities:

1) The location and times of all the illegal activities. The time
need only be to the nearest half day. Please provide the location
(eg Kirkcaldy), start date/time (eg 1 April 2005 pm) and end
date/time.

2) For each illegal activity the claimed justification for the
illegal activity.

3) The total number of other stop and search activities which were
not illegal under the same legislation, from when the legislation
was introduced until now, broken down by year. An example would be
2009 - 65.

Please note that "replies" which involve attachments in proprietary
file formats are not acceptable. A reply which is not in plain text
format will be deemed to be a refusal to answer. I see no reason
why this information cannot be provided as plain text.

This information is not available on your web site. Indeed the page
on stop and search http://www.fife.police.uk/default.aspx?p...
falsely claims that "In Fife Constabulary, stop-searches are ONLY
carried out where there are proper grounds to do so.", yet we know
that Section 44 never involves proper grounds. It also says, "If
you are innocent you have nothing to fear.", which would be
laughable if it was not serious.

Yours faithfully,

David Hansen

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From: Johnston, Scott
Fife Constabulary

11 June 2010

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Dear Sir
This email is to acknowledge your Freedom of Information request.
It has been assigned reference number FOI/D219/10, please use this in all correspondence.
Yours Faithfully

Scott Johnston

PS 215 FOI/MoPI
Fife Constabulary
Burntisland Police Station
01592 251132

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From: David Hansen [mailto:[FOI #36919 email]]
Sent: 10 June 2010 14:30
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Subject: Freedom of Information request - Illegal stop and search
activities by Fife police

Dear Fife Constabulary,

I refer to the article at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/t...
and note that one of the guilty parties is reported to be Fife
police.

I assume the Telegraph is correct, if it is not then please say so.

If you have nothing to hide you will have no difficulty in quickly
providing the following information about your illegal activities:

1) The location and times of all the illegal activities. The time
need only be to the nearest half day. Please provide the location
(eg Kirkcaldy), start date/time (eg 1 April 2005 pm) and end
date/time.

2) For each illegal activity the claimed justification for the
illegal activity.

3) The total number of other stop and search activities which were
not illegal under the same legislation, from when the legislation
was introduced until now, broken down by year. An example would be
2009 - 65.

Please note that "replies" which involve attachments in proprietary
file formats are not acceptable. A reply which is not in plain text
format will be deemed to be a refusal to answer. I see no reason
why this information cannot be provided as plain text.

This information is not available on your web site. Indeed the page
on stop and search http://www.fife.police.uk/default.aspx?p...
falsely claims that "In Fife Constabulary, stop-searches are ONLY
carried out where there are proper grounds to do so.", yet we know
that Section 44 never involves proper grounds. It also says, "If
you are innocent you have nothing to fear.", which would be
laughable if it was not serious.

Yours faithfully,

David Hansen

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From: Johnston, Scott
Fife Constabulary

6 July 2010

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Dear Sir

Regarding your FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND ACT 2002) (FOISA) enquiry
please see the attached document.

Regards

Scott Johnston

PS 215 Scott Johnston
MoPI Project / FOI Team
01592 251132
email -[email address]

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