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Dear Merseyside Police,

### Background ###

Grayshift is a company providing law enforcement agencies with access to smartphones. A widely circulated media report on the company can be found here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrews...

### Request ###

I hereby request the following records:

- All invoices, purchases orders, contracts, loan agreements, procurement documents (but not limited to solicitation documents or notices of proposed contracts, proposed bids, unsolicited proposals, and/or documents justifying contracting without full and open competition), relating to purchases of products from Grayshift.

In order to help to determine my status to assess fees, you should know that I am a journalist writing for Motherboard, VICE's science and technology site, and that this request is being made as part of news gathering.

Yours faithfully,

Joseph Cox

Freedom Of Information, Merseyside Police

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Freedom Of Information, Merseyside Police

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Dear Mr Cox,

 

Response Letter - FOI Application SMC-2018-338 (please quote in all
correspondence)

 

I write in connection with your request for information which was received
by Merseyside Police on 27/03/2018. I note that you seek access to the
following information:

 

(paraphrased) Information relating to Grayshift

 

Following receipt of your request searches were conducted within
Merseyside Police to locate information relevant to your request.

 

Please find attached my full Response Table.

 

Complaint Rights

 

Your attention is drawn to the information following this response, which
details your rights of review and of complaint.      

 

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write
to or e-mail me at the below address, quoting the reference number above.

 

Making a complaint or appeal about your Freedom of Information response

We accept that sometimes you may not agree with the decision we’ve made
about your Freedom of Information request. If this is the case there is an
internal complaints procedure that should be followed.

You should make your complaint in writing to:

Information Access Unit

Information Bureau

Merseyside Police

PO BOX 59

LIVERPOOL

L69 1JD

 

Your complaint should detail:

·         What the original request was

·         The nature of the complaint

·         Why you feel you should have received more information

Your complaint will be fully investigated and will be dealt with by a
staff member who was not involved in the original decision. We will write
to you to advise the outcome of your complaint.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the results of your complaint you have the
right to appeal to the Information Commissioner, who can be contacted at:

The Office of the Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

More information is available from the Information Commissioner's website

[1]http://www.ico.gov.uk

Yours sincerely,

 

 

S. McMeekin

Disclosure Analyst

Merseyside Police

Data Access Unit (FOI)

PO BOX 59

LIVERPOOL L69 1JD

Fax: 0151 777 1677

E-mail:  [2][Merseyside Police request email]

 

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