Alleged Legal Professional Crimes

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Dear Serious Fraud Office,

Under the Freedom of Information Act, will you please disclose, for the years 2005 to 2011 inclusive:

(a) How many allegations of fraud, financial, white collar, or indeed any type of crime implicating, either directly or indirectly, a member of the legal profession have been reported to the force?

(b) How many of these allegations were logged in police records, and assigned a crime report number?

(c) How many of these allegations were referred to the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority, Law Society, or any other regulatory body, in lieu of a police investigation?

(d) How many were considered “civil matters”?

(e) How many investigations did the force complete as a result of these allegations?

(f) How many of these allegations were not investigated by the force?

(g) How many of these investigations were completed as paid services under the private hire of the police for the performance of special services under the 1996 Police Act provision?

(h) How many of these investigations resulted in charges being laid i) under the normal course of police duties and ii) under private company hire for the performance of special services?

(i) How many resulted in convictions i) under the normal course of police duties and ii) under private company hire for the performance of special services?

(j) Please detail the type of crime, the year in which the allegation was made, and the year in which the investigation was completed.

(k) Please advise how many police staff have qualifications in forensic accounting, and what those qualifications are.

(l) Please advise how many times private contractors have been hired by the force for the purpose of forensic accounting work during a fraud/white collar crime investigation.

(m) How many of these allegations have culminated in charges being laid against the complainant under the Vexatious Litigants Act 1981?

(n) How many of these allegations have resulted in arrest warrants being issued against the complainant?

Thank you so much. I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Information Officer, Serious Fraud Office

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[Subject only] Response to request for information

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Dear Information Officer,

Could you please clafify for me: are you saying that you do not investigate crimes that the public reports?

Are you saying that the Serious Fraud Office does not investigate fraud?

Yours sincerely,

Jean James

Dear Information Officer,

Will you please show me some courtesy, and respond to my question asking for clarification.

Yours sincerely,

Jean James

Dear Serious Fraud Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Serious Fraud Office's handling of my FOI request 'Alleged Legal Professional Crimes'.

[ I have not received a proper response to my questions. ]

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

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Dear Serious Fraud Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Serious Fraud Office's handling of my FOI request 'Alleged Legal Professional Crimes'.

[ PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE MY REQUEST FOR AN INTERNAL REVIEW ]

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

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

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Dear Sirs:

I wish to make a formal complaint against the Serious Fraud Office.

I have two Freedom of Information requests, and subsequent requests for internal reviews. The Freedom of Information requests were not dealt with properly, and the internal review requests are being ignored.

Here are the full details of both requests. They are made public here, and as you can see they are not receiving proper public responses.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/re...

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/al...

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Information Officer, Serious Fraud Office

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Dear Ms James,

Please find attached.

Kind regards
Information Officer

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Information Officer, Serious Fraud Office

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[Subject only] RE: Freedom of Information request - Alleged Legal Professional Crimes

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Dear Serious Fraud Office,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Serious Fraud Office's handling of my FOI request 'Alleged Legal Professional Crimes'.

[ Dear Tamazina Ellis:

You state that my question implied that the Serious Fraud Office was an ordinary police force. This “implication” was your own subjective conclusion.

The questions are still valid and you have not answered them.

Please answer the questions, in particular about the legal profession being involved in fraud. You have sidestepped the ENTIRE Freedom of Information request.

Why?

Yours sincerely,

Jean James (NB Ms.)

]

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

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Jean James left an annotation ()

Latest report on the Serious Fraud Office. It seems they do not charge and prosecute criminals, but make private deals with them and collect money instead.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/2...

Information Officer, Serious Fraud Office

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Dear Ms James,

Please find attached a reply to your email of 23 April.

Kind regards,
Information Officer
Serious Fraud Office

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