New Starts

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Dear Police Scotland,

Following on from another FOI from December 2013 can you provide me with the religious breakdown of all uniformed and non uniformed new entrants to Police Scotland from Jan 1st 2014 to Jan 1st 2015. Please show the uniformed and non uniformed separately in table form. Also please disclose the number who chose not to disclose their religion.

FYI the former foi

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/1...

I look forward to your reply.

Yours faithfully,

roddy paterson

FOI, Inverness,

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Police Scotland received your request for information on 03/02/2015 and
a response will be provided by 03/03/2015.

 

Please quote Ref No 2015-0261 in any further correspondence.

 

Regards

 
Alexa Urquhart
Information Disclosure Officer
Information Management Unit
Police Scotland
 
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Tha am fiosrachadh sa phost-d seo, agus ann an ceangal(an) sam bith na
chois, prìobhaideach agus dh’fhaodte FO SHOCHAIR LAGHAIL. ’S ann a-mhàin
airson an neach-uidhe a tha e. Mura tusa an neach-uidhe no mura h-eil
dleastanas ort a chur air adhart chun an neach-uidhe, thathar le seo a’
leigeil fios dhut gu bheil e toirmisgte am post-d seo a chleachdadh air
dhòigh sam bith, no fhoillseachadh, no sgrùdadh, no sgaoileadh, no
riarachadh, no lethbhreac a dhèanamh dheth.

Ma thàinig am post-d seo thugad le mearachd, leig fios sa bhad chun an
neach a sgaoil e, a’ cleachdadh a’ ghoireis fhreagairt ann am bathar-bog
a’ phuist-d agad no le fios a chur gu POILIS NA H-ALBA air (+44) 1786
289070 agus cuir às dhan phost-d.

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Dear Mr Paterson

 

Please find attached the response to your request.

 

Regards

 

 

David Steel

Information Assurance Officer
Police Scotland

01786 895 856

 

 

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Dear Police Scotland,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Police Scotland's handling of my FOI request 'New Starts'.

As i stated in my request "following on from a previous request". There was no issue in providing the information of the religion of new uniformed entrants. Can you confirm that in the period that I have requested the information that over 1000 uniformed police officers have joined Police Scotland and hence the cost being over £600 to provide the information?

If there is some error on your part please provide the information. If not please break the request down for the first 4 months of 2014 for the religion of new uniformed entrants.

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

Yours faithfully,

roddy paterson

E Storey left an annotation ()

Info could be easily exported into excel then sorted/filtered to give a tally.
Since they also request this data it must be tallied up somewhere or there'd be no point collecting it! They could also have just given you their latest equal ops report?

E Storey left an annotation ()

Odd that they could scour the HR database to answer the FOI request on new recruits with family members in the force, but not for their stated religion.
BTW there are around 1000 new starts each year.

Dear FOI,

I asked fro an internal review of your decision not to disclose the information that I requested 6 weeks ago. You have not acknowledged or complied with my request. Do you care to reply or shall I take the matter to the Scottish information Commissioner?

Yours sincerely,

roddy paterson

FOI, Inverness,

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Good morning Mr Paterson
 
Your email was forwarded to me by our Central Processing Unit.
 
Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in sending the response
to you.
 
Your request for review was dealt with by Supt MacRae timeously and the
response is attached.
 
I genuinely thought I had sent this to you on 24/03/2015, however I
inadvertantly had not.
 
Kind regards
 
Andrene
 
Andrene MacLeod
Lead Disclosure Officer
Information Management
Inverness
 
Website: [1]http://www.scotland.police.uk
Twitter: @policescotland
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Tha am fiosrachadh sa phost-d seo, agus ann an ceangal(an) sam bith na
chois, prìobhaideach agus dh’fhaodte FO SHOCHAIR LAGHAIL. ’S ann a-mhàin
airson an neach-uidhe a tha e. Mura tusa an neach-uidhe no mura h-eil
dleastanas ort a chur air adhart chun an neach-uidhe, thathar le seo a’
leigeil fios dhut gu bheil e toirmisgte am post-d seo a chleachdadh air
dhòigh sam bith, no fhoillseachadh, no sgrùdadh, no sgaoileadh, no
riarachadh, no lethbhreac a dhèanamh dheth.

Ma thàinig am post-d seo thugad le mearachd, leig fios sa bhad chun an
neach a sgaoil e, a’ cleachdadh a’ ghoireis fhreagairt ann am bathar-bog
a’ phuist-d agad no le fios a chur gu POILIS NA H-ALBA air (+44) 1786
289070 agus cuir às dhan phost-d.

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