This is to confirm receipt of your email sent to the Freedom of Information Enquiries mailbox of the Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) – Scotland’s prosecution service.
What happens next?
Your request will now be considered and, depending on what is requested, the FOI Manager will take the following course of action:

* allocate it to a dedicated member of the FOI Enquiries Team who will manage your FOI request and send you the COPFS response
or

* advise you by email if your request could not, or should not, be managed as a FOI; or if it is being managed by another department in COPFS e.g. if it is personal information this might be managed as a Subject Access Request; or where possible advise you of an alternative route to get the information
or

* advise you by email if it is not our organisation who would have the information requested - and where possible direct you to the probable source.

Please note that other than this automatic email acknowledgement; the above; or our request for clarification of any specific points, no member of the FOI Enquiries Team will contact you until the FOI response is issued.
What are the timescales?
If your request is managed under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002 we will respond:

* within 20 working days from the first working day after receipt of your request

or

* within 20 working days from the first working day after receipt of your clarification of any specific points.

For more COPFS FOI information please go to the FOI page on the COPFS website: https://www.copfs.gov.uk/freedom-of-info...

Thank you.
FOI Enquiries Team
Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service – Scotland’s prosecution service

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Please find attached a response to your FOI request of 17 May 2021.

Thank you.

FOI Enquiries

www.copfs.gov.uk
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