Dear Sir or Madam,

According to a letter in the Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser police
responded to a phone call concerning a pillow case on the wrong
part of a shared washing line
(http://www.eladvertiser.co.uk/opinion/le... accessed
11:50 on 18th Oct 2008)

1) I wish to know what the general policy of D&G Police is with
regards to disagreements between neighbours where there has been no
threat made of violence, racism, abusive language etc.

2) I wish to know how many times in the past year a next door
neighbour has been visited by D&G police for something which under
normal circumstances should be settled between neighbours.

3) I wish to know whether charges of wasting police time have been
brought against any member of the public in the past year for
contacting D&G police, if so what were the circumstances. This need
not be broken down to individual cases but may be by numbers of
each type of incident eg total number of people charged with
reference to hoax calls.

Yours faithfully,

K Morrison

Dear Sir/Madam

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

I refer to your email of 18 October 2008 in relation to policing
policies (neighbour disputes) and advise that your request has been
allocated the above reference number which should be quoted in all
related correspondence.

Under the Terms of the Act, the force has 20 working days to respond to
each request, effective from the date on which it was received and
therefore you will receive further correspondence in due course.

You should be aware that there may be a fee payable for the retrieval,
collation and provision of the information you have requested. You will
be advised if a fee applies and in this case, no information will be
provided without payment.

If you have any queries in the meantime, please contact me.

Regards

Steven Irving
Freedom of Information Officer
Force Information Directorate
Strategic Development and Governance
_____________________________

Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary
Police Headquarters
Cornwall Mount, Dumfries, DG1 1PZ
* 0845 600 5701
; www.dg.police.uk
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Dear Irving Steven,

Thank you for your letter dated 20 Oct 2008, I look forward to
receiving the Data within the time period stated.

If the amount of data collection takes you over what would be
reasonably be considered free, then please provide the information
gathered to that point, and I shall consider your output before
asking for further work that may involve a fee.

Yours sincerely,

K Morrison

Please find attached response.

Regards

Steven Irving
Freedom of Information Officer
Force Information Directorate
Strategic Development and Governance
_____________________________

Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary
Police Headquarters
Cornwall Mount, Dumfries, DG1 1PZ
* 0845 600 5701
; www.dg.police.uk
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