Revenue from all sources

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Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,

Under the Freedom of Information Act, for the years 2006 to 2011 would you please fully disclose:

(a) How much revenue has been received by the police force for services rendered by way of private investigations, bailiff/eviction type services, or by any other method of paid services, work performed, or contractural agreements made to business, private individuals, or organisations of any kind?

(b) Please outline the type of work or service rendered,in each case and disclose the revenue received for each type of service.

(c) How much revenue has been generated by the force for endorsements of any kind?

(d) Please indicate the types of products/services that the force endorsed for remuneration/financial benefit/fee and the revenue received.

(e) Please indicate total revenues from all sources, and break them down into categories.

(f) How many manpower hours per year, in total, have been devoted to privately paid services/contractual work?

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

Dear Jean

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 0145/12

We acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information (FOI) request which
was received by Cambridgeshire Constabulary on 05/03/12.

Your request will now be considered in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. You will receive a response within the statutory
timescale of twenty working days as defined by the Act. In some
circumstances, we may be unable to achieve this deadline. If this is the
case, you will be informed and given a revised time-scale at the earliest
opportunity.

If we require any further clarification regarding this request, you will
be notified.

We would advise you that the nature of certain requests may involve
payment of a fee. If this is the case, you will be notified.

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please
telephone on 01480 456 111 asking for the Information Access Office or
email [Cambridgeshire Constabulary request email]

Regards

Donna Milton
Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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Dear Jean

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 0145/12

In reply to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, received 05/03/12.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act) requires us to handle all
requests in a manner that is blind to the identity of the requestor. Any
information released in response to a request is regarded as being
published, and therefore in the public domain without caveat.

Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act, for the years 2006 to 2011 would you
please fully disclose:

(a) How much revenue has been received by the police force for services
rendered by way of private investigations, bailiff/eviction type services,
or by any other method of paid services, work performed, or contractual
agreements made to business, private individuals, or organisations of any
kind?

(b) Please outline the type of work or service rendered,in each case and
disclose the revenue received for each type of service.

(c) How much revenue has been generated by the force for endorsements of
any kind?

(d) Please indicate the types of products/services that the force endorsed
for remuneration/financial benefit/fee and the revenue received.

(e) Please indicate total revenues from all sources, and break them down
into categories.

(f) How many manpower hours per year, in total, have been devoted to
privately paid services/contractual work?

We have completed all searches within Cambridgeshire Constabulary and
hereby enclose your response.

Response

Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act states that a public
authority is not obliged to comply with a request for information if the
authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would
exceed the “appropriate limit”. For Police forces in the UK, the
"appropriate limit" is considered to be up to 18 hours of work on one
request. This information is given in the Freedom of Information (Fees and
Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.

It is estimated that it will take no less than 29 hours to provide a full
answer to this request. We do hold a database which gives details of
invoices. The nature of the information held within these means that they
will require further investigation and cross referencing with other
documentation to establish the type of work or service rendered as well as
how many man hours are being invoiced for. As an example; many entries
need to be referred to a separate charging calculation sheet, which is a
manual record, while others have been invoiced for a total monthly bill of
the cost to police a particular geographic area like a shopping centre. A
dip test by an experienced research indicates that on average this would
take 5 minutes per record to accurately show the number of man hours
invoiced for.

Unfortunately I cannot suggest a method of paring down your request into
one which is fully manageable within the cost limit.

Although excess cost removes the force’s obligation under the Freedom of
Information Act, as a gesture of goodwill, I have supplied information,
relative to your request, that was retrieved or available before it was
realised that the fees limit would be exceeded. I trust this is helpful,
but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for
the remainder of the request.

From 01/04/07 - 07/02/12 Cambridgeshire Police has received £2399728.41,
through sales invoices for services provided.

If you are unhappy with this response, please see the attachment below,
which sets out your rights to appeal.
(See attached file: Complaint Rights May-11.pdf)

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please
contact the Information Access Office via email, or on telephone number
01480 456 111 extension 2034.

Regards

Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Cambridgeshire Constabulary's handling of my FOI request 'Revenue from all sources'.

[ A response is long overdue, and the law has been broken. ]

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

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,

Sorry. I misread your convoluted reply.

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,

In answer to your reference to paring down the request, can you please provide me with copies of the Statements of Accounts for the past five years.

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Dear Jean

Could you please note that we do not receive copies of your annotations
made to requests; however I note from your link embeded in the below email
that you do not wish us to internally review your request since you have
since asked for copies of our past five years accounts.

If this is not an accurate interpretation of your position, please let me
know and your request will be reviewed at the next Appeals Panel, which
will sit on Friday 15th June. Please note that should you wish a review to
take place on that date you will need to advise us by not later than 8
June.

Please note, from an administrative perspective only, it is simpler for us
to manage your requests if you create new ones on Whatdotheyknow.com
rather than appending them to existing ones; this does not change the way
in which they are handled but assists our processes.

Regards

David Price

Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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     Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,
   
    Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
    Information reviews.
   
    I am writing to request an internal review of Cambridgeshire
    Constabulary's handling of my FOI request 'Revenue from all
    sources'.
   
    [ A response is long overdue, and the law has been broken. ]
   
    A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
    available on the Internet at this address:
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    Yours faithfully,
   
    Jean James
   
   
   
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Dear Jean

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 0275/2012

We acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information (FOI) request which
was received by Cambridgeshire Constabulary on 16th May 2012.

Your request will now be considered in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. You will receive a response within the statutory
timescale of twenty working days as defined by the Act. In some
circumstances, we may be unable to achieve this deadline. If this is the
case, you will be informed and given a revised time-scale at the earliest
opportunity.

If we require any further clarification regarding this request, you will
be notified.

We would advise you that the nature of certain requests may involve
payment of a fee. If this is the case, you will be notified.

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please
telephone on 01480 456 111 asking for the Information Access Office or
email [Cambridgeshire Constabulary request email]

Regards

David Price
Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,

Yes, this is correct. I apologise, because I made a mistake by not reading your response properly. I do not wish for an internal review - simply the Statements of Accounts.

Thank you, and my apologies once again.

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Jean

It's not a problem and apologies not necessary.

Regards

David

Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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     Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,
   
    Yes, this is correct. I apologise, because I made a mistake by not
    reading your response properly. I do not wish for an internal
    review - simply the Statements of Accounts.
   
    Thank you, and my apologies once again.
   
    Yours faithfully,
   
    Jean James
   
   

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Dear Jean

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 0275/2012

In reply to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, dated 15th May 2012 in which you asked for the following
information:

In answer to your reference to paring down the request, can you please
provide me with copies of the Statements of Accounts for the past five
years.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act) requires us to handle all
requests in a manner that is blind to the identity of the requestor. Any
information released in response to a request is regarded as being
published, and therefore in the public domain without caveat.

We have completed all searches within Cambridgeshire Constabulary and
hereby enclose your response.

In interpreting your request I have provided access to the last 5 sets of
Annual Accounts which have been prepared, these are in respect of the
FInancial Years: 2006/07; 2007/08; 2008/09; 2009/10 and 2010/11. The
accounts for the Financial Year ended April 2012 are being finalised and
will not be available before 1 September 2012.

The accounts in respect of the financial years ended 2007; 2008; and 2009
are attached as follows:

(See attached file: 2006-2007 Accounts.pdf)(See attached file: 2007-08
Statement of Accounts FINAL.pdf)(See attached file: Final accounts
2008-09.pdf)

In respect of the accounts in respect of 2009/10 and 2010/11 these
documents are already published on the Police Authority website.

Decision

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (the Act) I have decided to refuse access to the information you have
requested and direct you to where the information can be located.

Reason For Decision

Section 21 of the Act provides:

Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than
under section 1 is exempt information.

For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public
authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded
as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the information
is available from the public authority itself on request, unless the
information is made available in accordance with the authority’s
publication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined
in accordance with, the scheme.

The information you have requested is available from Cambridgeshire
Authority’s Publication Scheme and may be accessed through the following
web-link:

[1]http://www.cambs-pa.gov.uk/Our_Work.cfm?...

If you are unhappy with this response, please see the attachment below,
which sets out your rights to appeal.
(See attached file: Complaint Rights May-11.pdf)

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please
contact the Information Access Office via email, or on telephone number
01480 456 111 extension 2036.

Regards

David

David Price
Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Jean

not a problem.

I have made a diary note for 1 September to forward you a copy of the
latest accounts if they are available or update you if they are not. They
are actually the property of the Police Authority so if any queries arise
from the documents, please contact them - the link I have supplied should
allow you to do that; otherwise let me know and I will assist however I
can.

Regards

David

Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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     Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,
   
    Thank you.
   
    Yours faithfully,
   
    Jean James
   
   

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Jean,

the accounts for 2011/12 are now available from the police authority
website, apologies for the delay.

Click on the following link:

[1]http://www.cambs-pa.gov.uk/user_files/ar...

Regards

David

David Price
Information Access Office
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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     Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,
   
    In answer to your reference to paring down the request, can you
    please provide me with copies of the Statements of Accounts for the
    past five years.
   
    Yours faithfully,
   
    Jean James
   
   

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