Aberdeen division staffing

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Dear Police Scotland,

Please provide figures for both 1 April 2015 and 1 April 2013 in terms of;

- number of PC's serving in local policing teams across Aberdeen Division
- number of substantive Sergeants and inspectors fulfilling local policing team posts
- number of temporary sergeants and inspectors fulfilling local policing team posts.

Yours faithfully,

John

Dear Police Scotland,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Police Scotland's handling of my FOI request 'Aberdeen division staffing'.

The information has not been provided within legislative timeframes nor have you noticed me of the delay.

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

Yours faithfully,

John Peters

Sturrock, Claire,

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Dear Mr Peters,

A response to your request is not due until this Friday, 18 September.

In terms of Section 8 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act a
request is not valid unless it contains the name of the applicant.

As you did not provide this until 21 August, your request was not
considered as valid until that date.

Further information on this point can found on the Scottish Information
Commissioners website as follows:

http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR...

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Regards,


Claire Sturrock
Disclosure Manager (North)
Information Management
Police Scotland
PO Box 59, West Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 9JU

01382 596657

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Dear Mr Peters,

 

Please see the attached document for information relating to your request.

 

Regards,

 

Nicky

 

Mr Nicky Leiper

Lead Information Disclosure Officer - North

Information Management

Police Scotland

 

 

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Dear FOI Aberdeen,

I have asked for data for both 1 April 2013 and 1 April 2015. I'm looking for data for both dates in order to compare. The data you have provided is unclear in terms of there is no explanation of the dates the numbers refer to.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

John

FOI Aberdeen,

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Good morning.

I have looked at our response and it looks like we have only supplied figures for 1 April 2015 in error. Please accept my apologies for this oversight. I will be in touch as soon as possible with the information requested.

Kind regards

Amanda Taylor
Disclosure Officer
Police Scotland

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Some info received. Awaiting the rest.

Dear Police Scotland,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Police Scotland's handling of my FOI request 'Aberdeen division staffing'.

You have failed to provide me with the information requested in time and are long overdue.

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

Yours faithfully,

John

FOI, Dundee,

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Please find attached a response to your recent request for a review of FOI
15-1639.

 

Regards,

 

Claire Sturrock
Disclosure Manager - North
Information Management
Police Scotland
PO Box 59, West Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 9JU
01382 596657
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[2]www.scotland.police.uk
@policescotland
[3]www.facebook.com/policescotland

 

 

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Dear FOI, Dundee,

I note and thank you for your response.

However, local policing teams were established in the legacy Grampian police Aberdeen Division on 1 April 2010, as a result of a divisional restructure. As such, directly comparable numbers should be available in this case.

I'd be obliged if you would check again. As I am confident that these figures are available on the legacy Grampian systems, I will accept a copy of the 1 April 2010 document outlining the staff moves and I can collect the rank specific numbers myself if required.

Furthermore, I note your appology for the delay in handling this request, I would appreciate an explanation, and appology on its own seems empty and I'd like to be apprised of the background to the delay.

Thanks.

Yours sincerely,

John

FOI, Dundee,

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Dear John,

Thank you for your email.

With regard first of all to the reason for the late response to your original request, I can advise you that Police Scotland receives a significant volume of FOI requests each month and whilst every effort is made to meet the legislative deadlines, it is simply not possible on every occasion.

Compliance with timescales is reported to the Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner on a quarterly basis and those figures are publicly available on their website.

With regard to your subsequent questions, I can, should you wish, arrange for a second internal review of the response on the basis that you feel Section 17 of the Act (information not held) has been applied incorrectly.

As my response was the first response with regard to that particular information, I must advise you that the Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner would likely request that you do this before they would consider an appeal.

If you could please let me know, I'll arrange for a colleague to conduct a further review.

Regards,

Claire Sturrock
Disclosure Manager - North
Information Management
Police Scotland
PO Box 59, West Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 9JU

01382 596657

[email address]
www.scotland.police.uk
@policescotland
www.facebook.com/policescotland

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Dear FOI, Dundee,

I note the reasons for the delay, and accept them as beyond your control.

Please do ask for a second review as I am confident that the information does exist on legacy Grampian systems.

Thanks for your help

Yours sincerely,

John

Police Scotland

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Dear John

Please find attached the response to your request for a review.

Yours sincerely

Stephanie Laing
Information Management - Edinburgh
Police Scotland