Immigration Enforcement visits on East St, Southwark

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Dear Home Office,

For each enforcement visit for the purposes of arrest or detention that has occurred on East Street in Southwark, London, over the last 3 years I would like:

1 - I would like the date and time of each visit to a premises?
2 - The specific power of entry used for each visit? (eg. warrant, AD letter from senior mananagement, consent). (2b) If time constraints allow I would also like redacted copies of the proof of right of entry for each instance as well.
3 - How many people did you have 'intelligence' on (eg. a name, description) for each visit?
4 - How many people were detained on each visit? (4b) And, if possible, for what reason?
5- If possible, how long was each person detained for and what was the action following detention? (eg. deportation, release etc.)

This request comprises many parts, if a part falls under an exemption I would still like the other parts answered.

Yours faithfully,

Becca Martin

FOI Requests, Home Office

Dear Becca Martin,

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.

This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 40890). We will aim to send you a full response by 23/09/2016 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,

N McKenzie
FOI Requests
Home Office

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Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ, Home Office

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Dear Ms Martin

 

Please see the attached in regard to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Regards

 

Immigration Enforcement

Freedom of Information & Parliamentary Questions Team

 

 

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Dear Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ,

The 18th of Ovtober has now passed, could I please have my response.

Yours sincerely,

Becca Martin

Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ, Home Office

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Dear Ms Martin

 

Please see the attached in regard to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Regards

 

Immigration Enforcement

Freedom of Information & Parliamentary Questions Team

 

 

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Dear Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ,

Could you please let me know when the long overdue response to this FOI will be given?

Yours sincerely,

Becca Martin

Immigration Enforcement FOI PQ, Home Office

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Dear Ms Martin

 

Apologies for the delay, please see the attached response to your Freedom
of Information request.

 

Regards

 

Immigration Enforcement

Freedom of Information & Parliamentary Questions Team

 

 

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Dear Home Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's handling of my FOI request 'Immigration Enforcement visits on East St, Southwark'.

In answering my request you refused to answer 4 parts of the request (1b, 2a, 2b, 3) all for the same reason of Section 31(1)e - the information if released would be likely to prejudice the operation of immigration controls. I think this is a wrong application of the exemption for all of the four questions, however I only want the refusals to questions 2a, 2b and 3 reviewed and I will deal with each in turn:

Question 2a - "The specific power of entry used for each visit? (eg. warrant, AD letter from senior mananagement, consent). "
It is unclear how releasing the specific power of entry for historical immigration enforcement visits could prejudice the operation of immigration controls. These powers of entry are set in law, and therefore are public knowledge and not secret tactics of the Home Office that cannot be known publically. By releasing the power of entry used in these historical visits you are just proving whether Immigration Enforcement officers had legal right of entry to the premises during these visits. Whether Immigration Enforcement have carried out historical immigration enforcement visits legally is of high public interest and does not prejudice the legal operation of immigration controls.

Question 2b – “If time constraints allow I would also like redacted copies of the proof of right of entry for each instance as well. “
As with question 2a, this question once again is just checking whether certain historical immigration enforcement visits had legal powers of entry and the same arguments apply about the strong public interest. It is unclear how releasing proof of entry in historical visits could prejudice the legal operation of immigration controls.

Question 3 – “How many people did you have 'intelligence' on (eg. a name, description) for each visit?”
This question is once again asking a question in relation to the legality of historic immigration enforcement visits. It is of high public interest as it establishes whether these enforcement visits on East Street over the last 3 years were all acting on intelligence or part of fishing exercises. It is unclear how releasing information of how many people the Home Office had intelligence on during historical visits could prejudice the legal operation of immigration controls. All the information would do is bring accountability to the Home Office for its previous immigration enforcement visits.

And finally, in Question 4 you told me how many people had been detained per month, and not per visit as requested – could this please be corrected?

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

Yours faithfully,

Becca Martin

FOI Requests, Home Office

Dear Becca Martin,

Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.

This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 40890). We will aim to send you a full response by 13/01/2017 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you,

N McKenzie
FOI Requests
Home Office

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Dear FOI Requests,

You have now exceeded 20 days since the internal review was lodged. If I do not receive a response or explanation for why the 20 day period has been exceeded by the end of the week, I will report this to the ICO.

Yours sincerely,

Becca Martin

FOI Responses, Home Office

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Dear Ms Martin

 

Please find attached the Home Office response to your internal review
request for FOI case 40890.

I apologise for the delay.

 

Yours Sincerely

 

M Riddle

Knowledge and Information Management Unit

Performance and Risk Directorate

4th Floor Peel

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

T: +44 (0)20 7035 4848

 

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FOI Responses, Home Office

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Dear Ms Martin

 

Please see attached a revised response to your Freedom of Information
request (reference 40890).

 

 

Information Rights Team

Knowledge & Information Management Unit (KIMU)

Home Office

 

 

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FOI Responses, Home Office

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Please see attached a further response in respect of FOI 40890

 

Information Rights Team

Knowledge & Information Management Unit (KIMU)

Home Office

 

 

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FOI Responses, Home Office

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1 of 4 e-mails

 

From: FOI Responses
Sent: 07 November 2017 15:59
To: '[FOI #354759 email]'
Subject: FOI 40890 Further response

 

 

Please see attached a further response in respect of FOI 40890

 

Information Rights Team

Knowledge & Information Management Unit (KIMU)

Home Office

 

 

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2 of 4 e-mails

 

From: FOI Responses
Sent: 07 November 2017 15:59
To: '[FOI #354759 email]'
Subject: FOI 40890 Further response

 

 

Please see attached a further response in respect of FOI 40890

 

Information Rights Team

Knowledge & Information Management Unit (KIMU)

Home Office

 

 

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3 of 4 e-mails

From: FOI Responses
Sent: 07 November 2017 15:59
To: '[FOI #354759 email]'
Subject: FOI 40890 Further response

 

 

Please see attached a further response in respect of FOI 40890

 

Information Rights Team

Knowledge & Information Management Unit (KIMU)

Home Office

 

 

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From: FOI Responses
Sent: 07 November 2017 15:59
To: '[FOI #354759 email]'
Subject: FOI 40890 Further response

 

 

Please see attached a further response in respect of FOI 40890

 

Information Rights Team

Knowledge & Information Management Unit (KIMU)

Home Office

 

 

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Dear FOI Responses,

I was told in November that two of the warrants I had requested were in transit. Are these now out of transit? Can I please have them?

Yours sincerely,

Becca Martin

FOI Responses, Home Office

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