Does HMIC inspect for conformance to Freedom of Information law requirements

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Dear Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services,

As there is clearly a problem with Greater Manchester Police in terms of its obedience to the law, I'm interested in whether you specifically inspect for this topic. FOIs should be responded to within 20 working days, yet GMP admits to failing badly.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

It seems to be a continuing problem as demonstrated here

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/g...

which should have been an easy request to answer.

Do you inspect on this topic? If so is there a table showing forces' compliance rates, and what improvements are you seeing?

Do you hold data on complaints on the topic, or is that the IOPC?

Yours faithfully,

John Davidson

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Have Your Say,

Dear Mr Davidson,

Thank you for your email of 21 August 2018.

We do not inspect specifically on compliance with FOI legislation. We do hold data on complaints from the IOPC but this does not allow you to tell which complaints are about FOIs. I recommend you direct your request to the IOPC as they may be able to breakdown the data further.

Kind regards
HMICFRS

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