Dear Sir or Madam,

Freedom of Information Act request.

I am requesting certain documents that you may have detailing force
policy and procedure in the management and review of police injury
award pensions prior to the year 2004.

To help you in your search and to direct my enquiry as clearly as
possible I am quoting below a paragraph from Home Office Circular
46/2004, Annex C:

'This Guidance is being issued to help ensure a fairer, more
cohesive approach to the payment of injury benefits to ill-health
retired officers who have reached the compulsory retirement age
with their Force. A recent survey found that practice in this area
was diverse. Some forces automatically reduced degree of
disablement benefits to the lowest banding when this age had been
reached - others continued to pay benefits at the same rate until
the death of the Officer concerned.'

The above quote identifies two categories of forces - A) one group
that automatically reduced degree of disablement benefits to the
lowest banding when compulsory retirement age had been reached and
a second group B) that continued to pay benefits at the same rate
until the death of the Officer concerned.

I am attempting to identify and obtain a copy of documents that
show which category ( A or B) your force would have been included
in prior to receipt of HOC 46/2004.

It may be that your response would be sufficient if you simply tell
me which group your force was in, but if there was a written policy
or procedural document setting out details, then I should like a
copy.

You can send copied documents in any standard digital format.

Your assistance in this matter is very much appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

Ms N. McCall

Dear Ms McCall

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 0064/2009

We acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information (FOI) request which
was received by Cambridgeshire Constabulary on 30th January 2009.

Your request will now be considered in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. You will receive a response within the statutory
timescale of twenty working days as defined by the Act. In some
circumstances, we may be unable to achieve this deadline. If this is the
case, you will be informed and given a revised time-scale at the earliest
opportunity.

If we require any further clarification regarding this request, you will be
notified.

We would advise you that the nature of certain requests may involve payment
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Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please
telephone on 0845 456 456 4 extension 2396 or email [Cambridgeshire Constabulary request email]

Regards

David Price
Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Dear Ms McCall

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 0064/09

In reply to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, received 30/01/09.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act) requires us to handle all
requests in a manner that is blind to the identity of the requestor. Any
information released in response to a request is regarded as being
published, and therefore in the public domain without caveat.

Request

I am requesting certain documents that you may have detailing force
policy and procedure in the management and review of police injury
award pensions prior to the year 2004.

To help you in your search and to direct my enquiry as clearly as
possible I am quoting below a paragraph from Home Office Circular
46/2004, Annex C:

'This Guidance is being issued to help ensure a fairer, more
cohesive approach to the payment of injury benefits to ill-health
retired officers who have reached the compulsory retirement age
with their Force. A recent survey found that practice in this area
was diverse. Some forces automatically reduced degree of
disablement benefits to the lowest banding when this age had been
reached - others continued to pay benefits at the same rate until
the death of the Officer concerned.'

The above quote identifies two categories of forces - A) one group
that automatically reduced degree of disablement benefits to the
lowest banding when compulsory retirement age had been reached and
a second group B) that continued to pay benefits at the same rate
until the death of the Officer concerned.

I am attempting to identify and obtain a copy of documents that
show which category ( A or B) your force would have been included
in prior to receipt of HOC 46/2004.

It may be that your response would be sufficient if you simply tell
me which group your force was in, but if there was a written policy
or procedural document setting out details, then I should like a
copy.

We have completed all searches within Cambridgeshire Constabulary and
hereby enclose your response.

Response

There was no written policy for the review of pension injury awards for
the application of the Pension Regulations of 1987 (specifically
Regulation K2) as this was viewed as the policy. Prior to the
publication of HOC 46/2004, Cambridgeshire Constabulary would have been
included in category B.

If you are unhappy with this response, please see the attachment below,
which sets out your rights to appeal.

(See attached file: Complaint Rights.pdf)

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please
contact the Information Access Office via email, or on telephone number
0845 456 456 4 extension 8165.

Regards

Donna Anderson
Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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