PCN Targets - Cllr Chalkley Investigation

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Name: Ben Tweedy
Address: See email address
Email: [FOI #23430 email]
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Request Details: As you may be aware, the documentary Confessions of
a Traffic
Warden is due to be broadcast by Channel 4 this evening at 9pm.

The director of the program, Ollie Lambert, has stated in a
Telegraph article (as can be found
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/r...)
that “The experience of myself and the Channel 4 production team
found there was an ingrained culture at all three Westminster bases
in which CEOs believed “high scoring” wardens were routinely
rewarded with overtime and more lucrative shifts.

“Only one CEO was prepared to make these allegations on camera, but
many CEOs felt that this practice was rife, and many confirmed it
off-camera.”

He added that Channel 4 had conducted its own private
investigation, which resulted in ten signed statements supporting
the claims made by the CEO about the existence of ticket targets,
and the link between NSL awarding overtime shifts to CEOs who meet
ticket target expectations.

In that same article Councillor Danny Chalkley, Westminster's
cabinet member for city management, said: "Westminster council does
not set targets for the number of tickets issued by parking
attendants and has not done so for over five years. Any evidence to
suggest otherwise will be fully investigated."

I would class ten signatures backing up a statement as "any
evidence".

In light of the above, please answer the following questions

1) When will Danny Chalkley be launching a full investigation?

2) Which INDEPENDENT body will be carrying out this investigation?
I ask this as there is an obvious conflict of interest if the
investigation is to be carried out by Danny or Westminster City
Council.

FOI Reference Number: 4649
Target Completion Date: 17/12/2009

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Dear Mr Tweedy,

Please find attached our response to your recent request, submitted to the
Council under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

<<FOI Request Response Letter - Tweedy FOI 4649.doc>>

Yours sincerely,

Tanya Holden
Data Protection & FOI Officer
Knowledge and Information Management
Westminster City Council
101 Orchardson Street
London, NW8 8EA
Tel: 0207 641 6451
Fax: 0207 641 2872
Email: [Westminster City Council request email]
[1]www.westminster.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Tweedy,

Thank you for your email below.

Please note that the Council's response to your FOI request did not
contain any reference to Councillor Chalkley's opinion on the producer's
comments (which were cited in your original request).

Further, your additional questions are outside of the scope of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 and, therefore, will not be responded to here.

I can inform you, however, that any complaints and/or related
correspondence should be directed to either the relevant department or
through the formal complaints process. I include a link here for your
convenience:

[1]http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/c...

Yours sincerely,

Tanya Holden
Data Protection & FOI Officer
Knowledge and Information Management
Westminster City Council
101 Orchardson Street
London, NW8 8EA
Tel: 0207 641 6451
Fax: 0207 641 2872
Email: [Westminster City Council request email]
[2]www.westminster.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Tweedy,

Thank you for your email.

The reason why the provided link does not appear to work is due to the
fact that, because of how long it is, it has been split between two lines.

If I try to resend the link it is most likely that this will occur again.
In order to access the information, therefore, I suggest that rather than
clicking on the link, you instead copy and paste all of the link into the
internet address bar.

Yours sincerely,

Tanya Holden
Data Protection & FOI Officer
Knowledge and Information Management
Westminster City Council
101 Orchardson Street
London, NW8 8EA
Tel: 0207 641 6451
Fax: 0207 641 2872
Email: [Westminster City Council request email]
[1]www.westminster.gov.uk

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