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09/12/2013
Your Ref:
Our Ref: IM-FOI-2013-1493
request-183947-
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Sir Stephen House QPM
Chief Constable
FOI Central Processing Unit
173 Pitt Street
Glasgow
G2 4JS
xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx
Dear Ms Scott
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002
SUBJECT: OPERATION PLANET
I refer to your email dated 07/11/2013 regarding the above which has been
handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
(FOISA). Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your
request.
QUESTION
Operation Planet
1 What was the purpose, remit and terms of reference of the operation
2 What dates it ran
3 What results it achieved in terms of number of arrests, number charged,
number of convictions and for what offences for each
4 Who the Police officer was in charge and how many officers were on the
operation
5 Why the operation was instigated
6 Where the operation was run from and what area did it cover
7 Why was the name chosen
8 Where this information is now kept, and in what form -physical or electronic
9 Whether there were any Executive Summaries or reports produced
10 What legal entity is Police Scotland. If a corporation , what is the corporate
number
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@PoliceScotland
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RESPONSE
There is no information held regarding Operation Planet in any division of
Police Scotland apart from Edinburgh/legacy Lothian & Borders Police whose
response is noted below. Therefore under Section 17 of the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 I must inform you that we do not hold the
information you have requested.
Edinburgh/Legacy Lothian & Borders Police
Questions 1,2, 3, 5 & 6
The information you seek is obtainable through open-source searching of the
Internet, As you are able to access this information yourself, under section 25
of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 I need not disclose the
information to you.
However, to be of some assistance I have attached a link to the relevant
website below;
http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/operation-planet-abuse-justice-crown-office-
scotland
Question 4
The officer who oversaw the investigation was Detective Superintendent
George Ritchie and the Reporting Officer was Detective Inspector Peter
Robertson. Due to the passage of time we cannot confirm how many officers
were involved in the investigation therefore under Section 17 of the Freedom
of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 I must inform you that we do not hold the
information you have requested.
Question 7
As this is an historic case we cannot confirm the procedure for choosing
operational names. Procedures have changed over the years and latterly
there is no particular reason for picking names. Local divisions keep a
register of available operational names. The first letter reflected the division it
belonged to e.g. operations beginning with “a” belonged to A Division (former
City of Edinburgh division). These names are taken from the dictionary and
allocated to each operation on an alphabetical basis.
Question 8
Information relating to offences is kept in line with our Records Retention
schedule. Files exist in electronic and paper format
.
Question 9
Police Scotland does not hold information relating to Executive Summaries or
Reports therefore under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland)
Act 2002 I must inform you that we do not hold the information you have
requested.
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Question 10
Police Scotland was established by Section 6 of the Police & Fire Reform
(Scotland) Act 2012 which states “There is to be a constabulary to be known
as the Police Service of Scotland”.
I trust that the information available is of assistance and should you require any
further assistance concerning this matter please contact me on 01463720555
quoting the reference number given.
If you are not satisfied with the way in which your request has been dealt with,
you are entitled in the first instance and within 40 working days of receiving
this letter to request a review of the decision made by the Force. Should you
wish to do so, contact details are; Police Service of Scotland, FOI Central
Processing Unit, 173 Pitt Street, Glasgow, G2 4JS. (Or email
xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx)
Once informed of the Review decision, if you are still not satisfied, then you
are entitled to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner within six
months for a decision. Contact details are; ‘Office of the Scottish Information
Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife, KY16
9DS’, telephone 01334 464610.
Yours sincerely
Andrene Macleod
Information Management
Freedom of Information
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