Dear Thames Valley Police,

I understand that your police force uses the services of a Dr William Cheng in the role of Selected Medical Practitioner (SMP). This role includes medical assessments of serving and former police officers in regard to police injury awards and police injury pensions.
For the period 1st January 2013 to August 8th 2018:

1. Please provide me with information on how many times Dr Cheng has been employed by TVP to make any assessment of a serving, or former, Thames Valley police officer under the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006.
2. Please give me, for the period quoted above, how many assessments, or re-assessments for serving, or former, Thames Valley police officers your organisation has undertaken in total under the above quoted regulations. (i.e., a total number of assessments or re-assessments by all SMPs employed by TVP).
3. Please provide me with information on how many appeals made by serving or former Thames Valley police officers to a Police Medical Appeal Board have resulted from the involvement of Dr Cheng in making decisions referred to him under the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006.
4. Please provide me with the outcome of any appeals. Were they found in favour of the appellant, or found in favour of the respondent?
5. Please also provide me with information on how many occasions has Dr Cheng conducted reconsiderations of any of his decisions, under provision of regulation 32-(2) of the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006.
6. Please provide me with the outcome of any reconsiderations. Did they result in no amended decision, or an amended decision?
7. With reference to questions 4, 5, & 6 above please provide similar information relating any other SMPs Thames Valley Police has employed during the same period.

Yours faithfully,

Belinda Kincavel

Dear Thames Valley Police,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Thames Valley Police's handling of my FOI request 'Dr. W. Cheng used as an SMP by Thames Valley Police & Appeals Relating to Injury Pensions'.

I find it hard to believe that you cannot supply the information requested for the period quoted. You state that the information relating to date(s) prior to April 2014 would be difficult, and costly, to access.
Thames Valley Police has an Occupational Health Department and a Medical Pensions Manager. I believe that between the two roles they should be easily able to ascertain how often Dr. Cheng was employed by Thames Valley Police even prior to April 2014. Surely your Finance Department would be able to identify when Dr. Cheng was paid a fee by Thames Valley Police and this could be a starting point for answering my original question(s).
Please reconsider your decision to refuse my entire original FOI request.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/d...

Yours faithfully,

Belinda Kincavel