Police Injury Pensions Policy

John Jarman

[1][FOI #24545 email]

14 December 2009

Dear Mr Jarman

Freedom of Information Request - Reference No: 20090642

Thank you for your request for information in relation to:

1. Do you have a written policy governing the management and review
of police injury pensions? If you do, please provide me with a
copy.

2. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
reduced when reviewed?

3. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
increased when reviewed?

4. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
reduced to the lowest band when the former officer in receipt of
the pension reached (or had already reached) the age of 65?

5. If your force has any document recording any analysis and/or
consideration of the guidance contained in Annex C to Home Office
circular 46/2004 please supply me with a copy.

6. If your force has any document recording any calculation and/or
projection of the potential budgetary savings and/or financial
impact that might result from adoption of the guidance contained in
Annex C to Home Office circular 46/2004 please supply me with a
copy.

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances South Yorkshire Police may be unable to
achieve this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a
revised time-scale at the earliest opportunity

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and
the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment
from you. If you choose not to make a payment then your request will
remain unanswered.

Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.

Please Note *** Responses are published on South Yorkshire Police
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If you have any enquiries please contact the Information Compliance Unit
on the numbers below.

Yours sincerely,

Martha Robinson
Information Compliance Clerk
South Yorkshire Police
Information Compliance Unit
Professional Standards Department
Unit 20 Sheffield 35A Business Park
Churchill Way
Sheffield
S35 2PY

External T/N
0114 292 1797
0114 292 1798

South Yorkshire Police provides you the right to request a re-examination
of your case under its review procedure (copy enclosed). If you decide to
request such a review and having followed the Constabulary***s full
process you are still dissatisfied, then you have the right to direct your
comments to Information Commissioner who will give it consideration.

Citizen Focus: Improving Satisfaction and Confidence is a Priority for the
Force

John Jarman To FOI requests at South
<[FOI #24545 email]> Yorkshire Police
<[South Yorkshire Police request email]>
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Subject Freedom of Information
request - Police Injury
Pensions Policy

Dear South Yorkshire Police,

I am seeking certain information related to police injury pensions.

1. Do you have a written policy governing the management and review
of police injury pensions? If you do, please provide me with a
copy.

2. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
reduced when reviewed?

3. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
increased when reviewed?

4. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
reduced to the lowest band when the former officer in receipt of
the pension reached (or had already reached) the age of 65?

5. If your force has any document recording any analysis and/or
consideration of the guidance contained in Annex C to Home Office
circular 46/2004 please supply me with a copy.

6. If your force has any document recording any calculation and/or
projection of the potential budgetary savings and/or financial
impact that might result from adoption of the guidance contained in
Annex C to Home Office circular 46/2004 please supply me with a
copy.

Notes:

In this request, the term ***document*** should be taken to mean any
record whether in printed or digital form, including reports,
minutes or transcripts of meetings, notes, memoranda, letters, and
email, etc.

Any information you supply should be in any standard digital
format, such as MS Word (.doc) or Adobe Portable Document Format
(.pdf) and sent to the address indicated, where it will be
available for viewing by visitors to the whatdotheyknow.com web
site.

Yours faithfully,

John Jarman

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15 December 2009

John Jarman
What do they Know

[1][FOI #24545 email]

Dear Mr Jarman

Freedom of Information Request - Reference No: 20090642

Thank you for your request for information in relation to: -

1. Do you have a written policy governing the management and review
of police injury pensions? If you do, please provide me with a
copy.

2. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
reduced when reviewed?

3. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
increased when reviewed?

4. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
reduced to the lowest band when the former officer in receipt of
the pension reached (or had already reached) the age of 65?

5. If your force has any document recording any analysis and/or
consideration of the guidance contained in Annex C to Home Office
circular 46/2004 please supply me with a copy.

6. If your force has any document recording any calculation and/or
projection of the potential budgetary savings and/or financial
impact that might result from adoption of the guidance contained in
Annex C to Home Office circular 46/2004 please supply me with a
copy.

Please could you clarify the following point(s): -

For question 2 and 3, can you confirm if you mean a reduction following a
financial or a medical review.

Please forward your clarification to South Yorkshire Police as this
request will be ‘stopped’ on our database until this has been
received.
Once we have received clarification, your request be considered and you
will receive a response within the statutory timescale of 20 working days
as defined by the Act, subject to the information not being exempt or
containing a reference to a third party. In some circumstances South
Yorkshire Police may be unable to achieve this deadline. If this is likely
you will be informed and given a revised time-scale at the earliest
opportunity.

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and
the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment
from you. If you choose not to make a payment then your request will
remain unanswered.

Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.

Yours sincerely,

Martha Robinson
Information Compliance Clerk
South Yorkshire Police
Information Compliance Unit
Professional Standards Department
Unit 20 Sheffield 35A Business Park
Churchill Way
Sheffield
S35 2PY

External T/N
0114 292 1798
0114 292 1797

Email - [South Yorkshire Police request email]

To find out who your local Safer Neighbourhood Team officer is, how to
contact them, and to find out what’s happening in your area enter your
postcode at [2]http://neighbourhood.southyorks.police.uk

South Yorkshire Police provides you the right to request a re-examination
of your case under its review procedure (copy enclosed). If you decide to
request such a review and having followed the Constabulary’s full
process you are still dissatisfied, then you have the right to direct your
comments to the Information Commissioner who will give it consideration.

Citizen Focus: Improving Satisfaction and Confidence is a Priority for the
Force

CITIZEN FOCUS: Our commitment is to understand what the public want – so
that we deliver what they need.

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11 January 2010

John Jarman
What do they know

[1][FOI #24545 email]

Dear Mr Jarman

Freedom of Information Request - Reference No: 20090642

Thank you for your request in relation to.

1. Do you have a written policy governing the management and review
of police injury pensions? If you do, please provide me with a
copy.

2. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
reduced when reviewed?

3. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
increased when reviewed?

4. Since August 2004, to date, how many injury pensions have been
reduced to the lowest band when the former officer in receipt of
the pension reached (or had already reached) the age of 65?

5. If your force has any document recording any analysis and/or
consideration of the guidance contained in Annex C to Home Office
circular 46/2004 please supply me with a copy.

6. If your force has any document recording any calculation and/or
projection of the potential budgetary savings and/or financial
impact that might result from adoption of the guidance contained in
Annex C to Home Office circular 46/2004 please supply me with a
copy.

RESPONSE

1. South Yorkshire Police do not have a written policy. Annual financial
reviews are carried out in accordance with the Injury Regulations.

2 & 3. Your request for information has now been considered and I am not
obliged to supply the information you have requested. Section 17 of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires South Yorkshire Police, when
refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt)
to provide you the applicant with a notice which:

(a) states that fact;
(b) specifies the exemption in question and;
(c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the
exemption applies.

The following exemption applies to the disclosure of the information:

Section 12 *** Exemption where cost of compliance exceeds appropriate
limit

Records within Corporate HR are computerised from 1993 onwards only. It
has been estimated that to retrieve and manually trawl through information
prior to this date (to check if there have been increases/decreases in
awards for the years specified) would take in excess of 30 hours. This
would exceed the appropriate limit. The Freedom of Information and Data
Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 provide that the
cost limit for non central government public authorities is **450. This
must be calculated at the rate of **25 per hour, providing an effective
time limit of 18 hours.

However, from the computerised records available, we have found that
following medical reviews there have been 6 reductions and no increases in
awards.

Information for financial reviews are available from 2006. A search has
found that following this type of review there have been 58 injury
pensions reduced and 34 increased.

4. None
5. No information held.
6. No information held.

In accordance with Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Duty
to provide advice and assistance), you may find the following website of
interest:

[2]http://www.opsi.gov.uk/SI/si2006/2006093...

If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been
handled, you can request a review by following the advice contained in the
separate notice attached to this correspondence:

If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint,
you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
The Information Commissioner's Office,
Wycliffe House,
Water Lane,
Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: 08456 306060 or 01625 545745
Website: www.ico.gov.uk
There is no charge for making an appeal.

Yours sincerely

Martha Robinson
Information Compliance Clerk
South Yorkshire Police
Information Compliance Unit
Professional Standards Department
Unit 20 Sheffield 35A Business Park
Churchill Way
Sheffield
S35 2PY

Email - [South Yorkshire Police request email]

Please note that police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely
required to provide information and statistics to government bodies and
the recording criteria is set nationally. However, the systems used for
recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used
locally in capturing the data. It should be noted that for these reasons
this forces response to your questions should not be used for the
comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.

South Yorkshire Police provides you the right to request a re-examination
of your case under its review procedure (copy enclosed). If you decide to
request such a review and having followed the Constabulary***s full
process you are still dissatisfied, then you have the right to direct your
comments to the Information Commissioner who will give it consideration.

The South Yorkshire Police in complying with their statutory duty under
sections 1 and 11 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to release the
enclosed information will not breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents
Act 1988. However, the rights of the copyright owner of the enclosed
information will continue to be protected by law. Applications for the
copyright owner***s written permission to reproduce any part of the
attached information should be addressed to The Force Solicitor, South
Yorkshire Police, Police Headquarters, Snig Hill, Sheffield, S3 8LY.

Citizen Focus: Improving Satisfaction and Confidence is a Priority for the
Force

CITIZEN FOCUS: Our commitment is to understand what the public want *** so
that we deliver what they need.

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