Smart car traffic offence

Graham made this Freedom of Information request to Westminster City Council

The request was refused by Westminster City Council.

From: Graham

25 September 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I notice that one of your CCTV Smart Cars was caught committing a
road traffic offence recently - see http://nutsville.com/?p=981 for
the full offence including a video

Please can you tell me:
1 - What action was taken against this particular individual?
2 - What communications were sent to your employees to ensure no
repeat of this took place?
3 - does WCC endorse such behaviour?
4 - Will WCC prosecute any further road traffic offences committed
by their employees?

Yours faithfully,

Graham

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Westminster City Council

25 September 2009

Confirmation of Freedom Of Information Request

Thank you for your request for information.

Your request details have now been recorded and will be passed on to the
appropriate Divisional Records Officer for action.

This Freedom Of Information Request was based on the following
information:

Name: Graham
Address: See email address
Email: [FOI #18499 email]
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Request Details: Dear Sir or Madam,

I notice that one of your CCTV Smart Cars was caught committing a
road traffic offence recently - see http://nutsville.com/?p=981 for
the full offence including a video

Please can you tell me: 1 - What action was taken against this
particular individual? 2 - What communications were sent to your
employees to ensure no repeat of this took place? 3 - does WCC
endorse such behaviour? 4 - Will WCC prosecute any further road
traffic offences committed by their employees?

Yours faithfully,

FOI Reference Number: 4419
Target Completion Date: 23/10/2009

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From: Customer Relations
Westminster City Council

28 September 2009

Attachment FOI4419 Graham.doc
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Dear Sir <<FOI4419 Graham.doc>>

Please find the attached response above.

Kind Regards

A Daly

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From: Graham

28 September 2009

Dear Customer Relations,

Thank you for your reply, however, I am not trying to report this
incident

I am asking the following:
"1 - What action was taken against this particular individual?
2 - What communications were sent to your employees to ensure no
repeat of this took place?
3 - does WCC endorse such behaviour?
4 - Will WCC prosecute any further road traffic offences committed
by their employees?"

So, as per the FOI process, please provide this information

Yours sincerely,

Graham

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From: Daly, Andrew
Westminster City Council

30 September 2009

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Dear Sir <<FOI4419A Graham.doc>>

Please find the attached response in respect of your follow enquiry to
FOI4419

Yours sincerely

A Daly

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J Batchellor left an annotation (30 September 2009)

I am gobsmacked by the arrogance of Westminster's response to you. (I was searching the site to see if Westminster had got round yet to answering my queries about Bouverie Place due a response by 8 September - they are now more than three weeks over the statutory deadline in my case).

You have asked for four pieces of information all held by the Council:
1. Their action against an employee publicly exposed committing road traffic offences. I expected them to cite a DPA exemption, but instead they have responded with a non sequitur.
2. Communications sent by them on a named subject.
3. Their policy on a subject.
4. Their policy on prosecution.

They have completely evaded the subject.

FOI Act 2000 is at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/A...
1 General right of access to information held by public authorities

(1) Any person making a request for information to a public authority is entitled—
(a) to be informed in writing by the public authority whether it holds information of the description specified in the request, and
(b) if that is the case, to have that information communicated to him.
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From: Graham

5 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Westminster City
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Smart car traffic offence'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/sm...

As you can see, the request has been rejected due to hat I can only
assume is someones inability to read the question fully/properly

Yours faithfully,

Graham

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From: FOI
Westminster City Council

3 November 2009

Attachment Response to Request for Internal Review Graham 4419.doc
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Dear Sir

Please find attached the Council's response to your request for an
internal review.

Yours sincerely

Catherine Preston
Knowledge and Information Management Team
Information Services
Westminster City Council
101 Orchardson Street
London
NW8 8EA
Tel: 020 7641 3332
Fax: 020 7641 2872
Email: [Westminster City Council request email]

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Bruce Argue left an annotation ( 1 October 2010)

It's worth letting Tim Cowen at NSL Services know

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Pors Tonith left an annotation ( 1 October 2010)

The spirit of the FOI is to share information, it really isn't the place of councils like Westminster to hide behind its intricacies. Yes, they are right, they didn't have the investigation but that's not what the question was asking, it's an obstructive response from Westminster.

Leave the FOI and repeat it in three months time and ask them what they have done about it.

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