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Thank you for your enquiry which has been logged under the above reference.

Under the Freedom of Information Act we are required to reply within 20 working days but given the current high level of requests being received that may not be possible. We will reply as soon as possible and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience any delay may cause.

Steve Grayton
Information Officer
Data Protection & Freedom of Information
Information Management
Corporate Development Department
Essex Police Headquarters
PO Box 2, Springfield, Chelmsford, CM2 6DA
Tel: 0300 333 4444 Ext 54551
Fax: 01245 452256
Email : [email address]
For FOI requests : [Essex Police request email]
For Data Protection: [email address]
Website: www.essex.police.uk
Hours of work : Mon - Thurs 7:30 to 15:30
Fri 7:30 to 15:00

-----Original Message-----
From: John Peek [mailto:[FOI #13697 email]]
Sent: 24 June 2009 21:16
To: FOI
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Common Purpose Graduates

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please list the Common Purpose graduates currently working for
Essex Police. Please also detail your expenditure related to Common
Purpose in any way, from 2005 to date.

By 'Common Purpose', I mean the training organisation of that name:
http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx By 'Common Purpose
graduate', I refer to a specific class of person who has passed the
advanced Common Purpose courses.

Yours faithfully,

John Peek

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As advised in my email acknowledgement to your request we are experiencing problems with meeting FOI deadlines as we have been overwhelmed by the number of requests received so far this year.

I am sorry for the delay in reply but I have commenced my enquiries and will reply as soon as I can.
Sorry for the inconvenience this delay will cause.

Steve Grayton
Information Officer
Data Protection & Freedom of Information
Information Management
Corporate Development Department
Essex Police Headquarters
PO Box 2, Springfield, Chelmsford, CM2 6DA
Tel: 0300 333 4444 Ext 54551
Fax: 01245 452256
Email : [email address]
For FOI requests : [Essex Police request email]
For Data Protection: [email address]
Website: www.essex.police.uk
Hours of work : Mon - Thurs 7:30 to 15:30
Fri 7:30 to 15:00

-----Original Message-----
From: John Peek [mailto:[FOI #13697 email]]
Sent: 28 July 2009 15:55
To: FOI
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Common Purpose Graduates

Dear FOI,

Your response to my request, placed on the 24th of June 2009, is
now overdue. I would still very much like a reply.

Yours sincerely,

John Peek

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Thank you for your enquiry which has been logged under the above
reference.

Under the Freedom of Information Act we are required to reply
within 20 working days but given the current high level of requests
being received that may not be possible. We will reply as soon as
possible and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience any
delay may cause.

Steve Grayton Information Officer Data Protection & Freedom of
Information Information Management Corporate Development Department
Essex Police Headquarters PO Box 2, Springfield, Chelmsford, CM2
6DA Tel: 0300 333 4444 Ext 54551 Fax: 01245 452256 Email : [email
address] For FOI requests : [Essex Police request email] For Data
Protection: [email address] Website: www.essex.police.uk Hours of
work : Mon - Thurs 7:30 to 15:30 Fri 7:30 to 15:00

-----Original Message----- From: John Peek [mailto:[FOI #13697
email]] Sent: 24 June 2009 21:16 To: FOI Subject: Freedom of
Information request - Common Purpose Graduates

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please list the Common Purpose graduates currently working for
Essex Police. Please also detail your expenditure related to Common
Purpose in any way, from 2005 to date.

By 'Common Purpose', I mean the training organisation of that
name: http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx By 'Common Purpose
graduate', I refer to a specific class of person who has passed the
advanced Common Purpose courses.

Yours faithfully,

John Peek

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Thank you for your enquiry which has been logged under the above reference. Having completed my enquiries I am able to respond as follows:

Please list the Common Purpose graduates currently working for Essex Police.

Please also detail your expenditure related to Common Purpose in any way, from 2005 to date.

By 'Common Purpose', I mean the training organisation of that name:

<http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx> http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx

By 'Common Purpose graduate', I refer to a specific class of person who has passed the advanced Common Purpose courses.

Essex Police does not record the information requested in a format that allows information to be retrieved without a manual review of each officers / staff files, a process which would exceed the time / cost constraints of FOI. Any expenditure is also not recorded against a heading "Common Purpose" and therefore in terms In terms of Freedom of Information, I am afraid that the specific information you were seeking access to is not held by Essex Police in what is referred to as a readily accessible format.

For the purposes of section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) this response serves as a formal notification of refusal of your request on the basis that Essex Police does not hold, for the purposes of FOIA, the specific data in a readily accessible format. That is to say, this data is not extractable from a central database or held in a spreadsheet. To ascertain whether this information is held would entail a manual search of Essex Police records; a process which would be likely to exceed the appropriate limit (as mentioned at section 12 of the FOIA) in terms of cost/time (£450 or the equivalent in time of 18 hours).

I am sorry that we have been unable to assist you on this occasion.

Steve Grayton
Information Officer
Data Protection & Freedom of Information
Information Management
Corporate Development Department
Essex Police Headquarters
PO Box 2, Springfield, Chelmsford, CM2 6DA
Tel: 0300 333 4444 Ext 54551
Fax: 01245 452256
Email : <mailto:[email address]> [email address]
For FOI requests : <mailto:[Essex Police request email]> [Essex Police request email]
For Data Protection: <mailto:[email address]> [email address]
Website: <http://www.essex.police.uk> www.essex.police.uk
Hours of work : Mon - Thurs 7:30 to 15:30
Fri 7:30 to 15:00
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Information Management at the above address.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Grayton On Behalf Of FOI
Sent: 25 June 2009 08:19
To: 'John Peek'
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request -our ref. 2190 Common Purpose Graduates [NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED]

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED

Thank you for your enquiry which has been logged under the above reference.

Under the Freedom of Information Act we are required to reply within 20 working days but given the current high level of requests being received that may not be possible. We will reply as soon as possible and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience any delay may cause.

Steve Grayton
Information Officer
Data Protection & Freedom of Information
Information Management
Corporate Development Department
Essex Police Headquarters
PO Box 2, Springfield, Chelmsford, CM2 6DA
Tel: 0300 333 4444 Ext 54551
Fax: 01245 452256
Email : [email address]
For FOI requests : [Essex Police request email]
For Data Protection: [email address]
Website: <file://www.essex.police.uk> www.essex.police.uk
Hours of work : Mon - Thurs 7:30 to 15:30
Fri 7:30 to 15:00

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