Police Injury Pensions Policy
Dear Sir or Madam,
Freedom of Information Act request.
I am requesting certain documents that you may have detailing force policy and procedure in the management and review of police injury award pensions prior to the year 2004.
To help you in your search and to direct my enquiry as clearly as possible I am quoting below a paragraph from Home Office Circular 46/2004, Annex C:
'This Guidance is being issued to help ensure a fairer, more cohesive approach to the payment of injury benefits to ill-health retired officers who have reached the compulsory retirement age with their Force. A recent survey found that practice in this area was diverse. Some forces automatically reduced degree of disablement benefits to the lowest banding when this age had been reached - others continued to pay benefits at the same rate until the death of the Officer concerned.'
The above quote identifies two categories of forces - A) one group that automatically reduced degree of disablement benefits to the lowest banding when compulsory retirement age had been reached and a second group B) that continued to pay benefits at the same rate until the death of the Officer concerned.
I am attempting to identify and obtain a copy of documents that show which category ( A or B) your force would have been included in prior to receipt of HOC 46/2004.
It may be that your response would be sufficient if you simply tell me which group your force was in, but if there was a written policy or procedural document setting out details, then I should like a copy.
You can send copied documents in any standard digital format.
Your assistance in this matter is very much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Ms N. McCall
Dear Sir / Madam,
Freedom of Information Request Reference N^o: FOI 062/09
I write in connection with your request for information, which has been
received by the Norfolk Constabulary.
The attached PDF document is provided as confirmation that your request
for information has been received, and provides an indication of the date
by which we aim to provide you with a response to your request. Should
you have any difficulty in opening the attachment, please confirm your
postal address and I will arrange for a paper copy to be forwarded to you.
Yours sincerely,
Nina Bond
Freedom of Information Department
Norfolk Constabulary
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Dear Norfolk Constabulary,
I am awaiting a response from you to a FOIA request I made.
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act you should have responded no later than the 26th Feb.
Would you please check and see if you are now in a position to respond, and advise me accordingly.
Yours sincerely,
Ms. N. McCall
Dear Norfolk Constabulary,
I am awaiting a response from you to a FOIA request I made.
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act you should have responded no later than the 26th Feb.
Would you please check and see if you are now in a position to respond, and advise me accordingly.
Yours sincerely,
Ms. N. McCall
Dear Ms McCall
Freedom of Information Request Reference N^o: FOI 062/09
I write in connection with your request for information, which has been
received by the Norfolk Constabulary.
The attached document contains the Norfolk Constabulary's response to your
request. Should you have any difficulty in opening the attachment, please
confirm your postal address and I will arrange for a paper copy to be
forwarded to you.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Kindleysides
Freedom of Information Department
Norfolk Constabulary
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Richard Kindleysides
Freedom of Information Decision Maker
Freedom of Information Department
Professional Standards
Norfolk Constabulary
Operations and Communications Centre
Falconers Chase
Wymondham
Norfolk NR18 0WW
Tel: 01953 42 4487
Fax: 01953 42 4080
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Dear Richard Kindleysides,
Thank you for your response to my enquiry.
Can you please tell me when I can expect to view the information you have provided - you say it will be made available on your public disclosure log section of Norfolk Constabulary's web site. However, it seems not to have yet been posted there.
Yours sincerely,
Ms. N. McCall
Dear Ms McCall,
The Norfolk Constabulary's response to your request was attached to my
email of the 2nd of March.
Norfolk Constabulary responses to Freedom of Information requests are
usually issued in a PDF format that can be opened using the free 'Adobe
Reader' software. Unfortunately, due to a technical issue we are
currently unable to convert Microsoft Word documents into a PDF format.
If you are unable to open the response issued to you on the 2nd of
March, I will be happy to post a copy to you if you provide me with an
address to which it can be sent. If for any reason you feel that you
need to withhold your address, the whatdotheyknow.com website provides
an HTML version of all responses posted on this web-site.
Having tested this facility on a computer that does not have 'Microsoft
Word' installed, I can confirm that the response published on the 2nd of
March can be opened via this facility.
As soon as our IT Department address the technical issues currently
preventing us from accessing the software required to convert the 'Word'
documents into PDF, we will post a PDF version of our response on our
Force web-site.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Kindleysides
Freedom of Information Department
Professional Standards
Norfolk Constabulary
Operations and Communications Centre
Falconers Chase
Wymondham
Norfolk NR18 0WW
Tel: 01953 42 4487
Fax: 01953 42 4080
Dear Richard,
Many thanks for your help. It is much appreciated. I have now been able to view your response and am happy that you have fully answered my enquiry. It seems that your force fell into category B prior to 2004.
Yours sincerely,
Ms. N. McCall
Ms. N. McCall left an annotation ()
If you are a former officer on an injury pension and would like to make contact with an email-based self help group of others then send a message to Eddie at whatsyourforcedoing[AT]yahoo.co.uk Be sure to mention the whatdotheyknow web site.
The results of the research into a vital aspect of Home Office Circular Annex C is now available on line at http://no10petition.blogspot.com/
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Ms. N. McCall left an annotation ()
Note: In collaboration with another researcher I shall be making the results of my FOIA requests public. We plan to put everything on a web site so that it is available for everyone who is interested in Home Office Circular 46/2004 and the police injury award pensions debate.
I will announce the publication in another annotation here.
There is a petition on the No 10 Downing Street web site that you may like to sign. It calls on the Home Office to rescind guidance issued in Circular 46/2004.
The petition is at:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/HOC-46-...
Nancy