Martin McGartland

17 November 2017

Dear Northumbria Police,

I would like details of Northumbria Police Chief Officer allowances, day-to-day spending and all amounts claimed (paid to each Chief Officer) for household bills.

I would like the information for the previous 12 months and breakdown of every payment (all amounts) paid to each of Northumbria Police Chief Officers by name. This request is also for details, reason for payment each payment eg (medical, home and car insurance, car, all credit card, rent payments, membership, subscription payments. Property, moving house, vehicle maintenance costs. All amounts claimed for travel, hotels, hospitality, mortgage payments, breaks, holidays, gifts, food, meals refreshments, entertainment and for all electronic devices etc.

Please also disclose copies of all Northumbria Police Chief Officer credit card statements which shows all amounts spent. I am requestings all statements for October, November and December 2016. January, february, march, april, may, june, july, august, september, october and november 2017.

Northumbria Police should be open and transparent with the public. They should make full disclosure to the public for all amounts paid from public funds. Mark Polin, who is representing chief officers, said: ‘Leaders of the police service recognise the need for greater clarity and transparency. The proposals agreed are a further step towards achieving this.’

I would refer you to news reports relating to this subject; " ROBBED BY GREEDY POLICE"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

Home Secretary Amber Rudd vowed to step in after learning police leaders were exploiting loopholes in outdated regulations.

She said ‘professionalism and integrity’ should be at the heart of all aspects of policing and those who lead must demonstrate the highest standards.

The Home Office said forces must now contribute to a centralised public record of police pay and perks for the first time.

This will include full details of their pay, rewards packages, gifts, hospitality and outside interests.

Fyi. The same FOI request has been made to a number of other police forces.

Yours faithfully,

Martin McGartland

Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,

You have not dealt with my request which included; "I would like details of Northumbria Police Chief Officer allowances, day-to-day spending and all amounts claimed (paid to each Chief Officer) for household bills.
I would like the information for the previous 12 months and breakdown of every payment (all amounts) paid to each of Northumbria Police Chief Officers by name. This request is also for details, reason for payment each payment eg (medical, home and car insurance, car, all credit card, rent payments, membership, subscription payments. Property, moving house, vehicle maintenance costs. All amounts claimed for travel, hotels, hospitality, mortgage payments, breaks, holidays, gifts, food, meals refreshments, entertainment and for all electronic devices etc. "

The information I requested is not included on the pages, links (one link is broken). I would remind you that this request is for, "all amounts claimed (paid to each Chief Officer) for household bills.
I would like the information for the previous 12 months and breakdown of every payment (all amounts) paid to each of Northumbria Police Chief Officers by name. This request is also for details, reason for payment each payment eg (medical, home and car insurance, car, all credit card, rent payments, membership, subscription payments. Property, moving house, vehicle maintenance costs. All amounts claimed for travel, hotels, hospitality, mortgage payments, breaks, holidays, gifts, food, meals refreshments, entertainment and for all electronic devices etc. " INCLUDING all amount - relating to all PUBLIC FACING Chief Officers by name ... all of which is paid for by taxpayer, public money.

I am requesting a review as I'm concerned that NP are attempting to cover up (from public - taxpayer) information relating to this request. The request, made on 17th November 2017, should also include all information that was held by NP at the time of the request.

Yours sincerely,

Martin McGartland

Martin McGartland

14 January 2018

FAO: Northumbriia Police Disclosure, Hayley Morrison,

The delay, the refusing to deal with FOI requests relating to public money could be seen as further evidence of corruption by NP.

My request, the review request could not be any clearer.

NP have not dealt with my request which included; "I would like details of Northumbria Police Chief Officer allowances, day-to-day spending and all amounts claimed (paid to each Chief Officer) for household bills." That information has not been disclosed. Furthermore, the requested information has never been disclosed by NP in the past. Nor is it included within previous NP public disclosures.

This request is also for full details, reason for payment each payment eg (medical, home and car insurance, car, all credit card, rent payments, membership, subscription payments. Property, moving house, vehicle maintenance costs. All amounts claimed for travel, hotels, hospitality, mortgage payments, breaks, holidays, gifts, food, meals refreshments, entertainment and for all electronic devices etc. Those which relate to each NP Chief Officer. That information, as above, has not been disclosed in reply to this request nor in the past by NP.

The information I requested is not included on the pages, links (one link is broken). I would remind you that this request is for, "all amounts claimed (paid to each Chief Officer) for household bills.

I would like the information for the previous 12 months and breakdown of every payment (all amounts) paid to each of Northumbria Police Chief Officers by name. This request is also for details, reason for payment each payment eg (medical, home and car insurance, car, all credit card, rent payments, membership, subscription payments. Property, moving house, vehicle maintenance costs. All amounts claimed for travel, hotels, hospitality, mortgage payments, breaks, holidays, gifts, food, meals refreshments, entertainment and for all electronic devices etc. " INCLUDING all amount - relating to all PUBLIC FACING Chief Officers by name ... all of which is paid for by taxpayer, public money.

I am requesting a review as I'm concerned that NP are attempting to cover up (from public - taxpayer) information relating to this request. The request, made on 17th November 2017, should also include all information that was held by NP at the time of the request.

Not withstanding the above, this review relates to all parts of my request, all of those which have not as yet been dealt with or answered. The requests relates to all recorded information that was held by NP at the time the request was made.

I have compelling evidence that NP, including its CC - others, have deleted and or destroyed data and information to cover up, suppress corruption and to protect themselves for embarrassment.

Yours sincerely,

Martin McGartland

Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,

The link which was not working, broken was the one that begins with [3]https://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedo.. ..... I have just check it this afternoon and it has since (after I made NP aware) been fixed.

Please deal with my request. The information that I have requested has never been disclosed by NP to date. Nor is in included within any of the links you included. This request relates to public money, NP will account for it. They can';t continue with these delays, the concealing and suppressing just so that they can cover up.

Yours sincerely,

Martin McGartland

Martin McGartland

21 January 2018

Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,

I repeat that the information that I have requested, as above clearly shows, has not been disclosed. Nor is it included within the links, pages that you refer to. Moreover, some on the information on the PCC web page only covers payments over £500.00. My request was for all information that relates to payments of £499.99 or less.

You claim; "It is acknowledged that many of your previous requests have been classed as vexatious". It is correct that some of my requests have been classed as "vexatious". However this, as you / NP, are well aware was as a direct result of your information department lying to ICO and its staff (in secret - in p-hone calls and correspondence) about me, Also, because of lies, false and very damaging passed to ICO (and others) by corrupt staff, police officers (including T/CC Winton Keenen and his munchkins) who have been involved in the cover up, the corruption relating to my and my cases.

regards "Campaign" ... what I am doing is exposing corruption at NP concerning my cases. NP have been destroying documents (and concealing others) those which are my personal data. This has been done to cover up past gross misconduct and criminal offences by Bent NP officers who have been involved with my cases.

I reported the below - published in Sunday Times, Burglary arrest of Northumbria Police chief singer son 'hushed up', today, 21 January 2018 - to Winton Keenen. He did nothing about it, he suppressed it. You will be aware that former ACC Vant was Winton Keene's boss at the time.

For 12 months Wionton Keenen (while DCC) and his PSD did nothing. It was only after I contacted him again (and the IPCC) that he took action. Had I not done so he would have continued to cover it up. The only "abuse" - and a great deal more - concerning my cases is on the part of NP, Winton Keenen and those other corrupt officers and staff working under his direct and control (when it concerns me and my cases).

PLEASE pass a copy of the reply to Winton Keenen so that he is aware of it.

NP, T/CC Winton Keenen and co can lie, cover up and continue with their corruption, as they have been, so far as I and my cases are concerned. They can huff, bluff and puff all they like. I will continue to expose them and their corruption.

https://www.facebook.com/Burglary-arrest...

Yours sincerely,

Martin McGartland

Published in Sunday Times today (21 January 2018)

Burglary arrest of Police chief's singer son 'hushed up'

A Northumbria officer paid compensation to a victim and colleagues deleted records of the £30,000 crime

Tom Harper and Robin Henry, Sunday Times January 21, 2018

A senior police officer's son was arrested on suspicion of burglary - but he was not charged, his father compensated the victim and details of the incident were deleted from the force's database.

Matthew Vant was questioned under caution on suspicion of burglary and criminal damage when he was a 19 year-year old university student after a party at his flat spilt over into a shop downstairs.

Detectives who went to the shop, a Cartridge World in Sunderland, found ink all over the walls, while a vintage record collection and several computers were missing. The investigating officer estimated the damage to be £30,000.

Vant is the lead singer of a punk rock band, also called Vant, who have performed at Glastonbury festival and on BBC Radio 1. His father, Greg, is a former assistant chief constable of Northumbria police.

Following the arrest of his son in November 2009, the force authorised the matter to be settled through the community resolution scheme with the shop owner receiving an apology and £1,000 from Greg Vant, who was still serving at the time. Such settlements do not lead to a criminal record.

When the incident was brought to the attention of senior officers, details of the crime were deleted from internal police databases. The decision is understood to have been an attempt to prevent the incident being leaked to the media.

Information about Vant's arrest was printed off before deletion and secretly retained in the force's safe.

A whistleblower who leaked details of the burglary incident to The Sunday Times said he thought the action taken by senior officers was completely inappropriate. "it seems it is one rule for the public and another for friends of Northumbria Police," said the source.

In 2016, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) received a complaint about the incident. The police watchdog, which changed its name this month to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, launched an independent investigation, which concluded that Greg Vant had no case to answer. He denies any involvement in the investigation into his son and said the decision to delete the logs was taken by a colleague.

He said his son had been "stupid" but was not guilty of any criminal offence. Northumbria Poilice said the IPCC "found no evidence of misconduct".

Martin McGartland

23 January 2018

Dear Michael,

The lights are on But no one is at home. You say; "The page you refer to below where you state 'only covers payments over £500.00' is not relevant to your query. These costs do not relate to payments made to Chief Officers. As per the page itself, these payments are for 'products and services' purchased by the Chief Constable for the day to day running of the Force, and is not classed as personal expenditure, which it appears you are looking for."

So why then do you send me that like, add it to your reply if, as you are now claiming, "is not relevant to your query." ?

As I said, you, NP have not dealt with my request, Please would you now do so. Why is it when it comes to monies claimed, paid to Northumbria Police Chief Officers that those very same officers use, abuse their Information Unit to suppress and cover up same. What have Northumbria Police Chief Officers got to hide. What are they concealing from the people who pay for it. And who pay their outrageously generous salaries (and for their perks and benefits etc)

Wise up.... how can you even claim: "We have tried to assist you on this matter however you have not been forthcoming in trying to assist us to do so." All you, NP have done is cover up and suppress information relating to this request. The same information that HMICFRS has stated in its latest report on NP that should be disclosed to the public.

Good old "vexatious"... what would corrupt NP do without it? For the record, I have not been "abusive/ aggressive". This is more NP lies. It is noted that you have not included any evidence?? Because there is none. Your Command Block, your legal & info departments - the same old corrupt ones when it concerns me, my cases) are working overtime. The truth is that the truth hurts and no amount of NP lies can change that, that being the real reason for continually gagging me and doing so illegally.

It makes a change, for the past 10 years or more, the lies and false cries and claims of "vexatious" - used in my cases - were based, according to NP, on my having already made the same requests. There was no evidence at all to back up those NP lies and false claims. Lets be clear, the real reason, apart from above, why NP, its Info and legal department have not dealt with my requests is as a result of their covering up, suppressing information relating to very serious corruption by NP (including by some of its most senior and Chief Officer- past and present when it concerns my cases (as well as others I have made FOIA requests).

Those who need to know are already aware that NP is one of the most corrupt, if not the most corrupt, force in the UK. I know better than most that NP will do, say anything - including break the law - to protect themselves, the force (including former officers) from being exposed, being involved in such corruption.

You sound like T/CC Keenen or perhaps Richard Heron - NP legal dept, ??, who it seems is writing all replies sent to me;
"You have made unfounded accusations against both police officers and police staff by indicating that employees are corrupt with regards to you and any cases involving you. This will not be further acknowledged or tolerated."

I will tell you, as I did Corrupt Winton Keenen - when it concerns me, my cases) there is no evidence to back up these NP, A/CC Winton Keenen lies, very damaging claims against me of "unfounded accusations" even Bigger lie, that is noted has not been included on this public forum, that my comments are defamatory. Winton Keenen has been emailed by me many times asking him to supply details of what "defamatory" comments he is referring to. He has never responded. Those lies were included within an email from Winton Keenen but were intended for the eyes of others including, ICO.

All statements and comments I have made, in correspondence and in public, are based on statements of facts. And on the truth. They are also backed up by compelling evidence. As you, NP will also be aware, and more importantly, they remain unchallenged, have done for more than 10 years.

It is open to T/CC Winton Keenen, NP and or any other officer to take legal action against anyone if they believe they have been defamed. No such action has been taken by them in my case. They will, I suspect, have sought, been given lots of legal advice (paid for by the public - not them). The advice, so far as I, my cases are concerned, would have been (and will be) same each, every time. That they don't have a leg to stand on. The truth will always stand and the Northumbria Police lies will fall.

Fyi; Truth - Truth provides a full defence to an action of defamation. It requires the defendant to show that that the imputation conveyed by the statement complained of is substantially true. Therefore the onus is on the defendant.

Honest Opinion - This new defence will replace the common law defence of fair comment. A defendant will have to meet the following three conditions to establish the defence of honest opinion:
The statement complained of must be an expression of opinion
The statement complained of must indicate the basis of the opinion
The opinion must be one that an honest person could have held on the basis of a fact which existed at the time the statement was published or a privileged statement published before the statement complained of.

I will let you into a wee secret. I have already told your A/CC Winton Keenen, NP that I would relish an opportunity to go toe to toe with him, NP in any court, hearing. I have loads of questions that I would want to ask. The same questions, he, NP have ignored, failed to answer during the previous 18 years. Only because he, NP have been covering up the corruption in my attempted murder, NP's smearing / dirty tricks campaign against me. And also the criminal conspiracy between NP, MI5 and HMG that began on the day, 17 June 1999, of my attempted murder. Which continues to this very day.

NP including A/CC Winton Keenen has been covering up IRA involvement in my attempted murder. Those who tried to murder me have also been protected from arrest. NP botched my attempted murder investigation as a result. This list goes on and on And on ......

Your claims regarding; "Your latest correspondence appears to have no obvious intent to obtain information – owing to the tone of the request, you appear to be using the Act to vent anger by asking questions tailored in a fashion that attempts to encourage the belief that the police service conducts abusive practises." You do know that I have also made the same request to a number of other Police forces in different parts of the UK, see here; "... complaining about budget cuts." " ROBBED BY GREEDY POLICE" - Martin McGartland request, Northamptonshire Police, which has been answered .. they have nothing to hide, Link https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Cumbria Constabulary; "... complaining about budget cuts." " ROBBED BY GREEDY POLICE" - Martin McGartland request - the Link;
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Humberside Police; "... complaining about budget cuts." " ROBBED BY GREEDY POLICE" - Martin McGartland request - the link ;
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Police Scotland; "... complaining about budget cuts." " ROBBED BY GREEDY POLICE" - Martin McGartland request - the link;
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

West Yorkshire Police; "... complaining about budget cuts." " ROBBED BY GREEDY POLICE" - Martin McGartland request - link here;
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Police Service of Northern Ireland; "... complaining about budget cuts." " ROBBED BY GREEDY POLICE" - Martin McGartland request - the link;
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Surrey Police; "... complaining about budget cuts." " ROBBED BY GREEDY POLICE" - Martin McGartland request - the link;
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Michael, or say I say, Hayley, Richard (and Team Winton) ... I'm getting dizzy. I rest my case on that issue. The facts don't lie. its in black and white. The fact of the matter is that the only anger, so far as I and my case is concerned, is on the part of those who are instructing the information unit to peddle their lies against me and who are also gagging me from making legitimate requests, team Winton and the munckins who do the dirty work.

Again, more lies;
"As we believe we have fully answered your request, and you are unable to advise us why we have not, we shall not be responding to any further correspondence on this matter." The request tells a different story. It was very clear.

I trust that you will now deal with my request and stop including these lies in your, NP's replies?

Yours sincerely,

Martin McGartland

Further details regards Martin McGartland, Northumbria Police:

Northumbria Police smearing and dirty tricks campaign against Martin McGartland;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjqphnDx...

Also;
https://www.google.com/search?ei=FqJnWtP...

https://www.google.com/search?ei=-6NnWuj...

https://www.youtube.com/user/dufferpad

https://www.scribd.com/user/55190556/Mar...

Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,

I made this request on 17 November 2017. Would you please answer my request which included; "I would like the information for the previous 12 months and breakdown of every payment (all amounts) paid to each of Northumbria Police Chief Officers by name. This request is also for details, reason for payment each payment eg (medical, home and car insurance, car, all credit card, rent payments, membership, subscription payments. Property, moving house, vehicle maintenance costs. All amounts claimed for travel, hotels, hospitality, mortgage payments, breaks, holidays, gifts, food, meals refreshments, entertainment and for all electronic devices etc."

You have supplied me a link which relates to NP's statement of accounts. Such you are well aware that the above information is not included within that document, nor has the requested information be published previously. I would like you to disclose all of the non exempt information without delay.

I note you have read my other requests to other police forces. I take it you will now be withdrawing your previous false claims (lies) about me and saying sorry? I didn't think so.

You are now claiming, again falsely, that; " I have looked at responses provided by other Forces and I believe our response provides the same level of detail as those other responses." Which responses? I am clear that you have not disclosed any of the information I have requested.

In fact, as you are well aware, HMICFRS in their latest report stated that NP had not been publishing details of payments etc to Chief Officers, that they had not published the details for a number of years. And that NP should publish the information so the public, the people paying for it, can have access to same.

Yours sincerely,

Martin McGartland