Police injury Pensions

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Information Compliance Unit

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Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

Thank you for your email dated 9 December 2009 in which you made a request
for access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria Police.

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of
access to information held by a Public Authority (including the Police),
subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

Part of the review process, to reduce pensions to former Northumbria Police
officers, is to set the post CRA earnings capacity against what is called
the National Average Earnings. This is basically those pensioners between
55 yrs and 65 yrs old.

How many pensioners have had their capacity thus set. This will be the
total figure since HO Circular 46/04 was issued.

In response:

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I
provide a response for your attention.

Northumbria Police adopted HO Circular 46/04 in April 2008. Since April
2008, the following number of reviews have been conducted using the
National Average Earnings (NAE) figure:-

1 April 2008 to 1 April 2009 = 1 review conducted using NAE figure

1 April 2009 to date = 5 reviews conducted using NAE figure

Information prior to April 2008 regarding injury award reviews may be
available from Northumbria Police Authority:-

Information Rights Officer
Northumbria Police Authority
Civic Centre
Regent Street
Gateshead
NE8 1HH

email:- [email address]

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual
property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be
strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as
amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not
re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

How to complain

If you are unhappy with our decision or do not consider that we have
handled your request properly and we are unable to resolve this issue
informally, you are entitled to make a formal complaint to us under our
complaints procedure which is attached.

(See attached file: FOI Complaint Rights.doc)

If you are still unhappy after we have investigated your complaint and
reported to you the outcome, you may complain directly to the Information
Commissioner’s Office and request that they investigate to ascertain
whether we have dealt with your request in accordance with the Act.

Yours sincerely

Michael Cleugh
Data Protection and Disclosure Advisor
Direct Dial: 01661 869389
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