Public confidence in Police

Paul made this Freedom of Information request to Home Office

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From: Paul

13 January 2010

Dear Home Office,

Please can you provide a list of all studies/investigations or
projects past or present concerning 'public confidence in Policing'

Yours faithfully,

Mr Mason

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From: Paul

11 February 2010

Dear Home Office,

Please can you attend to this? If a response is not forthcoming
within 7 days I will refer the matter to the ICO for a decision.

Yours faithfully,

Paul

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Paul left an annotation ( 2 March 2010)

MATTER REFERRED TO THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONAIRE

EMAIL TO ICO:

Dear ICO,

I have sent a request to the HOME OFFICE on the 13th of January 2010, to date I have not received a response. Can you please assist in this matter? The history of my request can be found here;

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pu...

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Home Office

16 March 2010

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Thank you for your e-mail enquiry of 13/01/2010 11:32:14 PM

A reply is attached.

Dear Mr Mason,

Thank you for your e-mail of 13/01/2010 about research into the drivers of
public confidence.

Below is a list of all the relevant Home Office studies:

Past
1) Improving public confidence in the police � a review of the
evidence (2009). http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/...
2) Findings from the second year of the national Neighbourhood
Policing Programme evaluation (2009).
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/...
3) Neighbourhood policing: the impact of piloting and early national
implementation (2008)
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/...
4) Evaluation of the National Reassurance Policing Programme (2006)
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/... and
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/...

Present
1) Ongoing work in progress on in-depth public perceptions of what
will improve confidence in the police and the local council.

Public confidence is also routinely measured as part of the British Crime
Survey. Reports on findings can be found here:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/bcs-pub...
Kind regards

Rebecca Craig

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From: Paul

16 March 2010

Dear Home Office,

Thank you for your reply. Is there any explaination for the
significant delay in responding? Indeed I suspect it may be even
courteous to apologise for such a long period in which my request
was not attended.

I will leave this request as 'open' until I have received a
response from both the Home office and the ICO, whom I refered this
matter.

Yours faithfully,

Paul

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Paul left an annotation (26 March 2010)

RESPONSE FROM INFORMATION COMMISSIONAIRE

Dear Mr xxxxxxx

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the FOIA)

Your information request to the Home Office

Thank you for your correspondence dated 2 March 2010 in which you complain about the Home Office’s failure to respond to your information request.

It is clear from the what do they know website that a response has now been provided by the Home Office. Although a clear breach of the Act did occur, the Commissioner does not consider that serving a formal decision notice would serve any strong public interest in this case. I have, however, written to the public authority reminding it of its responsibilities and recorded a breach of section 1 and section 10 of the FOIA on our system. I attach a copy of my letter for your information.

As outlined in my letter to the Home Office in the event of other, similar complaints, the Commissioner may consider taking enforcement action under s.52 of the Act. This case be used as evidence should any enforcement action be deemed necessary. The Commissioner’s Enforcement Strategy is available at the following link:

ICO Freedom of Information Enforcement Strategy

As you will see even though the Commissioner does not intend to issue a formal notice in this case, your concerns have been taken seriously. Thank you for bringing this matter to the attention of the Information Commissioner.

This case has now been closed with the delayed response element showing as ‘withdrawn’ on our records. I have enclosed a fact sheet explaining our complaint handling procedures. Please contact our Helpline on 0303 123 1113 if you require any further assistance.

Yours sincerely,

Tony Dixon

FoI Case Officer

FoI Case Reception Unit

Information Commissioner’s Office

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