Legal Hemp Flowers

Tyrone Armatage made this Freedom of Information request to North Yorkshire Police This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Dear North Yorkshire Police

Here is a link to a UK shop selling Legal hemp flowers as medicine.

https://www.iceheadshop.co.uk/research-c...

As you will note, the flowers look exactly like illegal cannabis flowers.

1. If a police officer discovers this legal hemp about a person and this person then informs the officer that the product is legal hemp and not cannabis. What happens next? Are they arrested on suspicion of being in possession of a controlled drug? Thus wasting Police time and resources and locking and innocent person up for 8 hours onlt to release them without charge? Or are they unlawfully given a cannabis warning at the roadside?

2. Please provide me with documentation on how your officers are trained to differentiate between legal hemp flowers and illegal cannabis flowers thus avoiding arresting innocent members of the public on suspicion of being in possession of a controlled drug which would stretch your limited resources and cost the tax payer money.

3. If no training is currently available, please explain why not and explain how your officers are able differentiate the two substances from each other, thus avoiding arresting innocent members of the public on suspicion of being in possession of a controlled drug .

Yours faithfully,

Tyrone Armatage

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Dear North Yorkshire Police,

You are late responding and are breaking the law. Please respond immediately,

Yours faithfully,

Tyrone Armatage

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Civil Disclosure, North Yorkshire Police

Good afternoon

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Please accept our apologies that we have not yet responded to your FOI request. We are currently receiving a high volume of requests and will respond as soon as we can.

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Sarah Saunders
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Administrative Assistant (Civil Disclosure)
Joint Corporate Legal Services
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Dear Civil Disclosure,

As a professional body this just isn't good enough.
You are breaking the law!

Yours sincerely,

Tyrone Armatage

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Dear North Yorkshire Police,

Due to your incompetence I have now forwarded this file to the ICO who have assured me that they will contact yourselves in due course.

Yours faithfully,

Tyrone Armatage

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Tyrone Armatage

Dear North Yorkshire Police,

I have been waiting since November 2018 for a reply.
Respond immediately or I shall pass this file to the ico and publish their findings.

Yours faithfully,

Tyrone Armatage

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Civil Disclosure, North Yorkshire Police

Good afternoon

Thank you for your below email.

Please accept our apologies that we have still not yet responded to your FOI request. We have received a large amount of requests in this financial year which has caused a delay in response time. We will respond as soon as we can.

Kind regards

Sarah Saunders
Collar Number 4868
Administrative Assistant (Civil Disclosure)
Joint Corporate Legal Services
North Yorkshire Police HQ
Alverton Court
Crosby Road
Northallerton
North Yorkshire
DL6 1BF

Tel: 01609 643526

DX 68810 Northallerton 2

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Tyrone Armatage

Dear Civil Disclosure,

By failing to respond, You have been breaking the law constantly since December 2018.

I have today spoken with the ICO who will now contact you on my behalf.

I will publish their findings nationwide.

Shame on you,

Yours sincerely,

Tyrone Armatage

Civil Disclosure, North Yorkshire Police

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Williams, Caroline, North Yorkshire Police

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Dear Mr Armatage,

 

Please find attached a reply to your Freedom of Information request
672.2018-19.

 

Regards

 

Caroline Williams

Legal Officer (Civil Disclosure)

Collar Number 5982

Joint Corporate Legal Services

North Yorkshire Police HQ

Alverton Court

Crosby Road

Northallerton

North Yorkshire

DL6 1BF

 

DX68810 Northallerton 2

 

Dial 101, press option 2 and ask for me by my full name or collar number. 
If using my collar number, please state each number individually.

 

[1]www.northyorkshire.police.uk

 

Committed to the Code of Ethics

 

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Tyrone Armatage

Dear Williams, Caroline,
No police training = the arrests of innocent people.

Yours sincerely,

Tyrone Armatage