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William Old
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This person's 69 Freedom of Information requests
Incorrect re-licensing of convicted drivers to to "blunders" by police
Follow up
sent to Department for Transport by William Old on 13 January 2012.
Long overdue.
Your response fails to provide the requested facts, and is little more than a repetition of the factually-incorrect Press release originally circul...
Dear Mr Old
I am writing in response to your email received on 17 December 2011
requesting a copy of the Local Traffic Order in force governing a...
New private Police IT company - recruitment
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by Home Office to William Old on 24 November 2011.
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Dear Mr Old,
Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information request.
Regards,
Information Access Team, Home Office...
PM - "7,000 trained police officers in back office jobs"
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by Home Office to William Old on 9 September 2011.
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Please find attached our response to your FOI Request.
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
Communications via the GSi may be autom...
Lawfulness of advice to forces - 30+ Scheme
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by Home Office to William Old on 8 September 2011.
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Dear Mr. Old,
Please see attached report and letter in regards to your request for an
Internal Review.
Regards
Information Access Team...
Retention figures for newly-recruited members of the Special Constabulary
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by Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to William Old on 8 July 2011.
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Dear Mr Old
Freedom of Information Request Reference No: 2011060001834
I write in connection with your request for information which was received...
Unlawful advice to forces - 30+ Scheme
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by National Policing Improvement Agency to William Old on 2 June 2011.
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Dear Mr Old,
Please find attached the NPIA's response to your request.
<<NRSB99-0111-110602 Final Response FOI 074_11.pdf>>
Regards,
Vicky Smith...
Recruitment to West Midlands Special Constabulary of "A19" ex-police officers
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by West Midlands Police to William Old on 26 May 2011.
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Dear Mr Old
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
Your request for information, received 23 April 2011 concerning A19 and
the Special Constabular...
Incorrect response to FOI 109-11
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by Tayside Police to William Old on 12 May 2011.
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Our Ref: FOI 215-11
E-Mail: [Tayside Police request email] for all correspondence
relating to FOI requests
Dear Mr Ol...
Police officers with 30 years service or more at 31/03/2010
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by Cheshire Constabulary to William Old on 3 December 2010.
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Dear Mr Old,
I refer to your recent request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 as set out below:
House of Commons "Hansard" f...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by Cumbria Constabulary to William Old on 19 February 2010.
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Dear Mr Old
Please find attached our response to your recent Internal Review request.
Kindest regards.
P Please, consider your environmental re...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by Gloucestershire Constabulary to William Old on 19 February 2010.
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Dear Mr Old
Gloucestershire Constabulary Freedom of Information request 2009.2383
On 13th November 2009 you sent an e-mail constituting a request u...
Provision for liability for underpaid police salaries
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by Dyfed-Powys Police Authority to William Old on 18 February 2010.
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Dear Mr Old
Reference No: 066.2010
I write in connection with your request for information dated 23rd of
January 2010 and received on 28^th o...
Oversight of FoI requests to Gloucestershire Constabulary
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by Gloucestershire Police Authority to William Old on 17 February 2010.
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Dear Mr Old
Gloucestershire Police Authority does not currently monitor the
Constabulary's compliance with FofI requests. Obviously individuals who
m...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by Dorset Police to William Old on 12 February 2010.
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Dear William Old,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 2009-510
I write in connection with your request for information which was rece...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by Gwent Police to William Old on 12 February 2010.
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Dear Mr Old,
Freedom of Information Request 2009/10430
Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 which was rece...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by Greater Manchester Police to William Old on 26 January 2010.
Partially successful.
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Dear Mr. Old,
Please see attached the result of your request for a review of Freedom of
Information Request Ref 5532 / 09...
Is it possible that Dyfed Powys police could just get on with the job they are paid for.
IE protecting the innocent and convicting criminals.
Instea...
Home Office advice to cease CRTP in certain circumstances
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by Derbyshire Constabulary to William Old on 17 December 2009.
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Please find attached our response to your recent request
S.Barlow
FOI Manager
<<0001_00248609_FOI_63RESPONSE LETTER.DOC>>
PLEASE NOTE: This e-m...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by Kent Police to William Old on 17 December 2009.
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Dear Mr Old,
Please find attached the Kent Police response to your request reference
8571-2009. I apologise for the delay in providing a response t...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by Avon and Somerset Constabulary to William Old on 17 December 2009.
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Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Corporate Information Management Department
Force Headquarters, PO Box 37, Valley Road,
Portishead, Bristol, BS20...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by Staffordshire Police to William Old on 15 December 2009.
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Dear Mr Old
Thank you for your recent request for information in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. I apologise for the delay in...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by West Yorkshire Police to William Old on 14 December 2009.
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Please find our response to your request
attached letter of response here
Regards
Laura Mudd
Freedom of Information Team West Yorkshire Police
01...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by North Yorkshire Police to William Old on 14 December 2009.
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Dear Mr Old,
Please find attached reply to your request for information.
Yours sincerely,
Christina Scaife
Disclosure Law Manager
Information Law U...
Unlawful cessation of payment of CRTP to officers
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by Surrey Police to William Old on 14 December 2009.
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Many thanks
Carolyn Mullen
Information Access Co-ordinator
Information Management Team
Information and Communications Technology Directorate
Sur...
This person's 25 annotations
Time for a blanket over Blunkett's bobbies?
Partially successful.
Matt,
Re your comment in your question 2 ("a breakdown of PSOs, RPCSOs, YPCSOs and PCSOs would be useful"), There is only one sort of CSO - and ther...
Matt,
Bizarrely, the force is claiming a Section 31 exemption, stating:
"Providing detailed information as to the availability of police assets to...
Matt,
Re (3) in your request - "Community Support Officers" (CSOs), by definition, should *never* be included in figures for response resources (God...
Facebook Crime
Request to Cheshire Constabulary by Agata Tina Campanella. Annotated by William Old on 10 June 2011.
Refused.
Agata,
I notice that you routinely send your FoI requests to individual public bodies as part of a data collection exercise across the entire countr...
The Sticky shocker projectile
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by mary huhges. Annotated by William Old on 10 June 2011.
Refused.
Having spent some while trying to find the video to which this enquirer refers in connection with the "Sticky shocker projectile", I gave up. Her pos...
Police Officers and Parking violations
Partially successful.
Bob,
Yellow lines don't in themselves create parking restrictions, they only indicate the existence of a local Traffic Regulation Order ("TRO") in r...
Special Service Info
Request to Cheshire Constabulary by Agata Tina Campanella. Annotated by William Old on 23 April 2011.
Partially successful.
Actually, Graeme, you have not listed "there" (their) real bosses at all. Police officers are not public servants, they are Crown servants, and answe...
Investigation figures 2009/10
Request to Independent Police Complaints Commission by Mr Andrews. Annotated by William Old on 23 April 2011.
Successful.
Mr Johnson,
There are literally millions of people around the world who rely on the Web as a communications medium, but don't use the Microsoft "Off...
Microsoft Office
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Amy,
You won't get the relevant information this way... I'm assuming that you are aware that in 2005, Microsoft sent a senior executive over from th...
Hannah,
Unfortunately, the problem with FoI responses is that they can sometimes be misleading because the people providing them are often not polic...
Can Government print its own notes?
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Lee,
Your specific area of interest isn't clear from your enquiry, but you might also wish to research the interesting topic of "legal tender".
Fo...
Network analysis...
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The response states:
"It would be unlawful to monitor individuals in the manner indicated and such monitoring is therefore undertaken."
Either thi...
Freemasonry in the West Midlands Police
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Unfortunately, the enquirer seems to be somewhat misguided, and the paranoiac claim of a "massive cover-up" doesn't help his case.
Matt, you need to...
Hmmm... it was probably an oversight (but sloppy procedure by the Constabulary if it was!) but the very first part of the request:
1) List of all 'd...
Note for researchers accessing this request
This police force (Dyfed Powys) is one of only two forces in England & Wales that arbitrarily stops maki...
Regulation 24(2) Police Regulations 2003
Partially successful.
Ignore the above annotation, they haven't reversed their policy - this is one of only five forces out of forty-three that still aren't compliant, desp...
Regulation 24(2) Police Regulations 2003
Partially successful.
As mentioned above, it's somewhat bizarre that the policy on this matter was changed from non-compliance with Reg 24(2) to compliance - a complete rev...
Microsoft licenses
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If this area is of interest to you, you might wish to look at the London Borough of Newham - they were all set to move their entire IT infrastructure...
Medical fitness
Request to National Policing Improvement Agency by George Gardner. Annotated by William Old on 5 May 2009.
Successful.
Strictly speaking, the NPIA has not fully complied with your request. All of the information given relates only to England & Wales, whereas your requ...
Mr Back-Brown,
I wasn't surprised to see yet another instance of South Yorkshire Police claiming that a request wasn't received... they have a habit...
Regulation 24(2) Police Regulations 2003
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It could have been far worse... they could publish material in the latest Word ".docx" format - then NO-ONE would be able to read it...
:-)
Regulation 24(2) Police Regulations 2003
Partially successful.
Readers will be astonished by the revelation that, if the response is accurate, this police force paid out many thousands of pounds in compensation an...
