Police Injury Pensions Policy

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Dear Ms McCall

Thank you for your email.

I have contacted our policy department in relation to this matter and the response to your request will be available shortly.

Yours sincerely
Catherine

Catherine Lloyd
Records Manager
City of London Police
Headquarters,
37 Wood Street, London EC2P 2NQ
Tel: 0207 601 2530 | Fax: 0207 601 2088
http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk <http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/>

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Dear Ms McCall

Thank you for your email.

Further to my earlier email, the department that holds this information is currently processing your request. I would anticipate that the response should be available by the end of the week.

Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in getting the response to you.

Should you wish to take this matter further, please do not hesitate to contact our FOI Manager, Inspector Dave Lockyear, on 0207 601 2279

Yours sincerely
Catherine

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Dear Ms McCall

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REF: COL/09/50

I write in connection with your request for information dated 29 January
2009 in which you seek access to the following information:

1. 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 been unable to identify any written policy relating to the
payment of injury award pensions prior to the year 2004. In order to
establish if the policy of this force was in line with category A or
B, it would be necessary to establish if any injury award pensions
had been reduced prior to the year 2004. Extracting this information
would require a manual search of the personnel record of each officer
that received a pension prior to 2004. The cost of completing this
work would exceed the prescribed limit and it has not therefore been
done.

The following additional information is provided outside the
provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.

Injury award pensions were reviewed in accordance with guidance
provided by the Force Medical Advisor based on the individual
circumstances of each retired officer. We are unaware of any
reduction in pension rate having been made prior to 2004 but please
note that no member of staff that currently deals with pensions was
in post prior to 2004 and the accuracy of this information cannot be
guaranteed.

Please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to your request.
Should you have any further questions, please contact me via e-mail,
letter or telephone, quoting the reference number above.

Yours sincerely

Inspector Dave Lockyear
Information Access Manager

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