Information on Dr William Cheng SMP
Dear Metropolitan Police Service (MPS),
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 2015 to 1st January 2019:
1. Please provide me with information on how many times Dr Cheng has been employed by Metropolitan Police Service to make any assessment of a serving, or former, Met 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, Met 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 Met Police).
3. Please provide me with information on how many appeals made by serving or former Met 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 Metropolitan Police Service has employed during the same period.
Yours faithfully,
Steven Hales
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PO Box 313
Sidcup
DA15 0HH
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21/10/2020
Dear Mr. Hales
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Official Sensitive
Information Rights Unit
PO Box 313
Sidcup
DA15 0HH
Email: [1][the Met request email]
[2]www.met.police.uk
Your ref:
Our ref: 01/FOI/20/016218
21/10/2020
Dear Mr. Hales
Freedom of Information Request Reference No: 01/FOI/20/016218
Please see the attached in respect of your Freedom of Information request
referenced above.
Yours sincerely
Jen Powell
Official Sensitive
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1. mailto:[the Met request email]
2. http://www.met.police.uk/
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