Police Injury Pension Reviews
Dear Hertfordshire Constabulary,
I am requesting information under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. It concerns the review of police injury pensions as per Regulation 37-(1) of the Police (Injury Benfit) Regulations 2006.
Will you please provide me with the following data:
1) How many reviews of police injury pensions have been conducted since January 2005? I ask that you provide the data set out year by year commencing from January 2005 up to and including December 2009.
2) Of these reviews,
a) how many resulted in an increase in the pension paid?
b) How many resulted in a decrease in the pension paid?
c) How many resulted in no alteration in the pension paid?
3) If your force has a policy document, or any other form of document or documents, setting out the procedure for the administration and review of police injury pensions, please supply a copy.
4) In a letter dated 10th March 2010, the Home Office advised all forces that all reviews be suspended. Has your force recommenced reviews since that date, and if so when?
Yours faithfully,
Claudine Paquet
William Hopkins left an annotation ()
Former officers in receipt of an injury pension may wish to know that help, advice and practical assistance is available to them. A web site has been set up as a contact point for former Police Officers who have had to retire prematurely owing to injuries received in the performance of their duties and are now facing significant reductions in their injury pensions following the introduction of advice contained in Home Office Circular 46/2004.
This is unfair and is a betrayal of people injured, through no fault of their own doing a valuable and essential service. Many former officers have suffered stress, financial uncertainty and maladministration. Forces and Police Authorities have been reluctant to admit any wrongdoing and are slow to move to correct the situation.
There is no need for anyone to face and fight this injustice on their own. Go to www.pipin.org.uk - it is free, friendly and informal.
Note: PIPIN is complementary to but completely independent from NARPO and the Federation but it recognises and applauds the sterling work done by those organisations.
Attention Ms Paquet
Further to your recent FOI request, please find attached a response
letter.
Information Services Office
Information Management Unit
Hertfordshire Constabulary
Tel: 01438 757745
Fax: 01438 757419
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Attention Ms Paquet
Further to your recent FOI request, please find attached a response
letter.
Information Services Office
Information Management Unit
Hertfordshire Constabulary
Tel: 01438 757745
Fax: 01438 757419
_______________________________________________
This e-mail is subject to our Legal Notice which you can view here
[1]Hertfordshire Constabulary's Legal Notice
References
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Claudine Paquet left an annotation ()
Injury pensioners and their supporters may wish to sign a new petition that calls on the Home Office to, this time round, issue some sensible advice.
Take a look - it is very much to the point.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petition...
à cœur vaillant rien d’impossible!
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Claudine Paquet left an annotation ()
Anyone who has an interest in police injury pensions, and in particular the maladministration of those injury pensions can find useful documents covering various aspects of this topic on the web site www.scribd.com/wdtk
If you have any documents relating to the topic, especially any letters, reports, policy documents, from or relating to Police Force Human Resource Departments, The Home Office, Selected Medical Practitioners, Police Medical Appeal Boards, Police Authorities, etc. and wish them to be published, please send them as an email attachment to atebion2me[AT]gmail.com
I am actively interested in publishing Pension Ombudsman determinations and reports from SMPs and PMABs.
Documents should be free of copyright and not reveal personal information. They will be 'scrubbed' of personal information before publication if necessary. Most any format of document can be handled but preferred format is MS Word, PDF or text.