OFFICIAL
Our reference: 5025257
Mr Joseph Lloyd
Sent by email to:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
17 January 2025
Dear Joseph Lloyd
Thank you for your information request.
You asked for specific material relating to our communications following the decision to
acquit Sergeant Martyn Blake, as announced on 21 October. We have considered your
request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and this letter sets out our
response.
- Any communications plans/strategies (including drafts).
No information is held.
- Lines to take (including drafts).
Please refer to the attached document for our lines to take. We have made minimal
redactions to a comment that has been made on the draft document to remove information
that references a different and unconnected case and therefore does not fall within scope
and to remove information that identifies the commenter.
- Pre-prepared statements and press releases (including drafts).
Please refer to the attached document for our pre-prepared statement and drafts.
- Records of relevant meetings of the press/media team.
No information is held.
- Media briefing packs.
Please refer to the attached document which includes the IOPC briefing note to media.
If you have any questions about this request please contact us. Please remember to quote
reference number 5025257 in any future correspondence about this matter.
If you are not satisfied with this response you may request an internal review. If you wish
to complain about any aspect of this decision, please provide your representations and
OFFICIAL
grounds for complaint within 40 working days of this response to:
xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx, or by post to the following address:
FOI Internal Review
Independent Office for Police Conduct
PO Box 473
Sale M33 0BW
Should you remain dissatisfied after an internal review, you will have a right of complaint to
the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO); however, we should point out that you are
normally obliged to exhaust the public authority’s own complaint mechanism before
complaining to the ICO.
Yours sincerely
The FOI and DPA Team
Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
