Dear Sir or Madam,

We know from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/...
that the Home Office has gathered figures for injuries caused to
police officials by bees, tooth fairies and so on during the police
repression of the fine up standing people who attended the climate
camp.

Please provide your figure for the number of campers injured by the
police.

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.

Yours faithfully,

David Hansen

Reference : T26042/8

Thank you for your e-mail enquiry of 15th December 2008.

A reply is attached.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's
handling of my FOI enquiry 'Kingsnorth - campers injured by
police'. You failed to note the final paragraph of my enquiry,
"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."

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

Yours sincerely,

David Hansen

Mr Hansen

Thank you for your email request an internal review regarding your Freedom
of Information request on the number of Kingsnorth Climate camp injured by
the police.

Your review request refers to that fact that the response was sent in a
non-proprietary format. I apologise for this oversight. I have copied
the response below.

I'd be grateful if you could advise if this was the sole basis of your
request, and if so that by resending it, you consider your complaint
resolved. If there are other issues which you would like us to consider
please advise us by return.

Gareth Wyn Hazzelby | Information Management Service | Financial and
Commercial Group | Lower Ground | Seacole Building | Home Office | 2
Marsham Street | London SW1P 4DF

Reference:
T26042/8 16^th
January 2009

Dear Mr Hansen,

Thank you for your e-mail of 15^th December 2008 asking the Home Office
to provide its figure for the number of Climate Camp protestors injured by
the police. I am afraid that that we do not have such information and I
can only suggest that you contact Kent police direct.

During Oral Answers in the House of Commons on 15^th December, in response
to further queries from David Taylor MP and David Howarth MP, Vernon
Coaker explained that he had been informed that 70 police officers had
been hurt, and had assumed that they had been hurt through direct contact,
as a result of the protest. He acknowledged that that was clearly not the
case and apologised if that had caused anybody to be misled. He informed
the House that the National Policing Improvement Agency was producing a
de-brief report on Kingsnorth and that he would discuss the conclusions of
that report with the public order lead of the Association of Chief Police
Officers, with a view to sharing lessons to be learned with police forces
across the country.

For ease of reference, I attach links to the House of Commons Hansard
debates for 15^th December and 27^th October 2008.

[1]http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...

[2]http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...

Yours sincerely

Maggie Ainsworth

Public Order team

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Dear Hazzelby Gareth (IMS),

Thank you for finally complying with my initial enquiry. Now that
this has been done the internal review is complete.

I note that Vernon Coaker "had been informed that 70 police
officers had been hurt", but he had neither been "informed", nor
had he bothered to inform himself, how many of the fine upstanding
citizens attending the camp had been injured. Some of these fine
upstanding citizens may well live in the Gedling constituency which
he is supposed to represent.

The contrast between the Home Office's disdain for the fine
upstanding citizens attending the camp and its obsequience towards
the black clad thugs who tried to prevent fine upstanding citizens,
camping equipment and even food getting to the camp demonstrates
that the Home Office is not just part of the problem but it is
actually an enemy of the solution.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/4... shows the
attempt to stop food getting to the camp.

Yours sincerely,

David Hansen