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Hampshire Police Watch

Dear Information Commissioner’s Office,

If a subject wishes to make a request from another EU country to establish if information is held about them by Interpol Manchester, would the ICO be involved in such a request?

Who is the Data Controller for Interpol Manchester who are based in the UK?

Please provide a copy of any protocol / procedure the ICO has for dealing with such matters.

Yours faithfully,

S Russell

Hampshire Police Watch

AccessICOinformation, Information Commissioner's Office

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Hampshire Police Watch

Dear AccessICOinformation,

Any update on this please?

Yours sincerely,

Hampshire Police Watch

AccessICOinformation, Information Commissioner's Office

Thank you for contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office. We confirm
that we have received your correspondence.

 

If you have made a request for information held by the ICO we will contact
you as soon as possible if we need any further information to enable us to
answer your request. If we don't need any further information we will
respond to you within our published, and statutory, service levels. For
more information please visit [1]http://ico.org.uk/about_us/how_we_comply

 

If you have raised a new information rights concern - we aim to send you
an initial response and case reference number within 30 days.

 

If you are concerned about the way an organisation is handling your
personal information, we will not usually look into it unless you have
raised it with the organisation first. For more information please see our
webpage ‘raising a concern with an organisation’ (go to our homepage and
follow the link ‘for the public’). You can also call the number below.

 

If you have requested advice - we aim to respond within 14 days.

 

If your correspondence relates to an existing case - we will add it to
your case and consider it on allocation to a case officer.

 

Copied correspondence - we do not respond to correspondence that has been
copied to us.

 

For more information about our services, please see our webpage ‘Service
standards and what to expect' (go to our homepage and follow the links for
‘Report a concern’ and ‘Service standards and what to expect'). You can
also call the number below.

 

If there is anything you would like to discuss with us, please call our
helpline on 0303 123 1113.

 

Yours sincerely

 

The Information Commissioner’s Office

 

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Information Commissioner's Office

18th December 2017

 

Case Reference Number IRQ0715908

 

Dear S Russell

Information request
 
I write in response to your email of 9 October 2017 in which you submitted
a request for information to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Your request has been dealt with in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
 
Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding to your
request.
 
Your request
 
“If a subject wishes to make a request from another EU country to
establish if information is held about them by Interpol Manchester, would
the ICO be involved in such a request? Who is the Data Controller for
Interpol Manchester who are based in the UK? Please provide a copy of any
protocol / procedure the ICO has for dealing with such matters.”

Our response
 
We do not hold information to answer your questions. We do not hold
information in connection with who is the data controller for “Interpol
Manchester”, nor do we hold a specific protocol or procedure for dealing
with complaints arising from requests submitted to them.
 
We handle complaints on case by case basis in line with our [1]service
guide 
 
If you have further queries relating to our advice or guidance please
contact our Helpline on 0303 123 1113 or by emailing
[2][email address]. 

Complaints regarding access to personal data can be submitted via the
following link [3]https://ico.org.uk/concerns/handling/. Please note
that enquiries or complaints should not be submitted via the
whatdotheyknow website. 
 
We do apologise again for the delay in responding to your request.
 
Yours sincerely
 
Iman Elmehdawy
Information Access Service Manager

Review Procedure

If you are not satisfied that your request for information has been dealt
with correctly, please write to the Information Access Team at the address
below, reply directly to this email (with the reference number contained
within the square brackets left intact), or email us at
[4][ICO request email], quoting the reference number
IRQ0696997.

Your request for a review should be submitted to us within 40 working days
of receipt by you of this response.  Any such request received after this
time will only be considered at the discretion of the Commissioner.

Ultimately if you are not satisfied that your request for information has
been dealt with correctly you have a further right of appeal to this
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relevant legislation.  To make such an application, please write to our
Customer Contact Team at the address below, or visit the ‘Report a
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Jonathan Baines left an annotation ()

The data controller in relation to Interpol Manchester appears to be the National Crime Agency https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/ZA0... (see https://www.interpol.int/Member-countrie...).