Police Injury Pensions Policy

John Jarman made this Freedom of Information request to Thames Valley Police

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From: John Jarman

11 December 2009

Dear Thames Valley 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:

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record whether in printed or digital form, including reports,
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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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From: FOI
Thames Valley Police

14 December 2009

Dear Mr Jarman

Reference No: RFI2009000845

Thank you for your request for information dated 11/12/2009 concerning
Police Injury Pensions.

This request will be dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

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 Thames Valley 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.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Thames Valley Police.

Yours sincerely,

Jane Shields

Freedom of Information Administrator

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Thames Valley Police

5 January 2010

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Dear Mr Jarman

Reference No: RFI2009000845

Thank you for your request for information dated 11/12/2009 which, for
clarity, I repeat:

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 for information has now been considered and our response is
detailed below.

1. Thames Valley Police does not have a specific force policy for
managing/reviewing police injury pensions. Home Office guidelines are
always used in this matter and further information can be found via the
Home Office website, I have provided a web link to this site below:

[2]http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/human-re...

2. Since August 2004 to date, 38 injury pensions for Thames Valley Police
officers have been reduced on review.

3. Since August 2004 to date, 5 injury pensions for Thames Valley Police
officers have been increased on review.

4. In the 2004-2009 timeframe, Thames Valley Police has reduced 12 injury
pensions to the lowest band when the former officer reached, or had
already reached the age of 65. We are unable to provide this data for the
more specific timeframe requested as to do so would involve a manual
search of records which would be complex and time consuming and may not
provide accurate results.

5 and 6) Thames Valley Police does not hold any relevant information to
satisfy this part of your request.

Please contact me quoting the above reference number if you would like to
discuss this matter further and may I take this opportunity to thank you
for your interest in Thames Valley Police.

Yours sincerely,

Jane Shields

Freedom of Information Administrator

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