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Dear Police Service of Northern Ireland,

I am writing to you to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In order to assist you with this request, I am outlining my request as specifically as possible.

Please indicate the number of investigations, fines and prosecutions issued to premises in Co Derry for breach of alcohol licensing laws for each year since 2014.

Please provide a breakdown of the number of offences each year for each postcode area in Co Derry and also indicate the nature of the offence (bar open after hours, selling to under 18s) etc.

Please also indicate the number and details of enforcement action resulting from these offences for each postcode area, namely the details of prosecutions and the number and figures of fines issued.

If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.

In any case, if you can identify ways that my request could be refined please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this.

I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request. I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.

Yours faithfully,

Mr McGuigan

Police Service of Northern Ireland

This e-mail has been marked OFFICIAL [PUBLIC];

8th October 2019

Dear Mr. McGuigan,

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

I write in connection with your request for information dated 7th October
2019 which was received by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)
on 8th October 2019.  I note you seek access to the following information:

Breach of Alcohol Licensing Laws

This request will be dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. A response should be sent to you within 20 working
days however I would like to advise you that PSNI are currently
experiencing a delay in the processing of requests and we aim to respond
to your request as soon as possible.

If your request is unclear and clarification is required the 20 day
legislative time limit dictated by the Freedom of Information Act 2000
will be stopped until we receive clarification of your request. The ICO
guidance at paragraph 40 of the link below sets out that the clock begins
anew the day after the clarification is received. It states

“If the requester subsequently provides enough detail to enable the
authority to identify and locate the information, then the authority must
respond to the clarified request within a new 20 working day time limit
with the ‘clock’ starting the day after it receives the required
clarification. “

The link for this is:

[1]https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisatio...

In the event where the cost of complying with the request would exceed the
“appropriate level”, which is fixed at £450, as stated in the Freedom of
Information Regulations 2004, it is the policy of the PSNI to close the
request. You will however be notified of this decision and given an
opportunity to refine and resubmit the request.

If your request requires either full or partial transference to another
public authority in order to answer your query, again, you will be
notified.

If you have any queries regarding your request please write or contact the
Corporate Information Branch on 028 9070 0164. Please remember to quote
the reference number listed above in any future communications with the
Corporate Information Branch.

If you are dissatisfied in any way with the handling of your request, you
have the right to request a review. You should do this as soon as
possible, or in any case within two months of the date of issue of this
letter. In the event that you require a review to be undertaken, you can
do so by writing to the Head of Corporate Information Branch, PSNI
Headquarters, 65 Knock Road, Belfast, BT5 6LE or by emailing
[email address]. 

If following an internal review, carried out by an independent decision
maker, you were to remain dissatisfied in any way with the handling of the
request you may make a complaint, under Section 50 of the Freedom of
Information Act, to the Information Commissioner’s Office and ask that
they investigate whether the PSNI has complied with the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act.  You can write to the Information Commissioner
at Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. In most circumstances the Information
Commissioner will not investigate a complaint unless an internal review
procedure has been carried out, however the Commissioner has the option to
investigate the matter at his discretion.

Yours sincerely,

Gillian

FOI Decision Maker
Corporate Information Branch
PSNI HQ Brooklyn

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Subject:  FOI-2019-02581

13^th  December 2019

Dear Mr. McGuigan,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

I apologise for the delay in responding to your request.

I refer to your request for information dated 7th October 2019 which was
received by the Police Service of Northern Ireland on 8th October 2019
concerning:

Breach of Alcohol Licensing Laws

Please find attached response to your request.

Yours sincerely

June

FOI Decision Maker
Corporate Information Branch
PSNI HQ Brooklyn

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