This is to confirm receipt of your email sent to the Freedom of Information Enquiries mailbox of the Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service – Scotland’s prosecution service.
What happens next?
Your request will now be considered and, depending on what is requested, the FOI Manager will:

* allocate it to a dedicated member of the FOI Enquiries Team who will manage your FOI request and send you our response
or

* contact you by email for clarification of any specific points
or

* advise you by email if it is not our organisation who would have the information requested - and where possible direct you to the probable source
or

* advise you by email if your request could not, or should not, be managed as a FOI – and where possible advise you of an alternative route to get the information.

Please note that other than this automatic email acknowledgement and the above no member of the FOI Enquiries Team will contact you until the FOI response is issued.
What are the timescales?
If your request is managed under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002 we will respond:

* within 20 working days* from the first working day after receipt of your request

or

* within 20 working days* from the first working day after receipt of your clarification of any specific points.

For more COPFS FOI information please go to the FOI page on the COPFS website: https://www.copfs.gov.uk/freedom-of-info...
Thank you.
FOI Enquiries Team
COPFS

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Please find attached a response to your FOI request of 11 July 2020.

Thank you.

FOI Enquiries

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