High Policing, Interpol and SAR procedure

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Joanna Iatridou

Dear Ministry of Justice,

Please provide what laws and policies apply for UK citizens or residents to submit SAR applications to the UK Interpol Central Bureau and obtain full disclosure of any data held about them.

Yours faithfully,

Joanna Iatridou

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Dear Joanna Iatridou,

SUBJECT: Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your correspondence of May 19, 2010, in which you asked
for information about various monies owed to North Lincolnshire
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Dear Joanna Iatridou,

SUBJECT: Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your correspondence of May 19, 2010, in which you asked
for information about laws and policies apply for UK citizens
or residents to submit SAR applications to the UK Interpol
Central Bureau and obtain full disclosure of any data held about
them under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) from the Ministry
of Justice (MoJ).

You will receive a response from us by June 16, 2010. Your request has
been passed to the appropriate business unit within the MoJ, and they
will write to you with their decision by this date.

The FOIA does provide a number of exemptions. A qualified exemption
requires that before relying on it we must consider the public interest
test. If the information you have requested is covered by a qualified
exemption(s) under FOIA, the Department is allowed to take longer than
20 working days to respond. This is because in such circumstances we are
required to consider the public interest issues when deciding whether or
not to disclose the information requested.

If more time is needed to consider the public interest issues under a
qualified exemption(s), we will write to you and inform you of the
revised date you can expect to receive a response to your request.

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Yours sincerely,

James Williamson

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Dear Ms. Iatridou,

Pleas find attached a recent response for your request for information.

Many Thanks,

Rhian Williams
Data Access and Compliance Unit|102 Petty France|

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Joanna Iatridou

Dear Williams Rhian,

Yes, I suppose people can write to SOCA to query if personal data is held about them, so your reply is a good suggestion. Also, while I was waiting I found out on Interpols website
http://www.interpol.int/Public/ccf/acces...

that anybody can dowload their one page form and write to Lyon to query if any data is held about them. Of course there is no guarantee of full disclosure, due to the nature of Soca and Interpol operations, but still, Interpol makes a good presentation that access is possible.
Many thanks,

Yours sincerely,

Joanna Iatridou