Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Thank you for your email received today in which you make a request for
information that Northumbria Police may hold in accordance with the Freedom
Of Information Act 2000

We are in the process of dealing with your request and a response should be
provided to you by 07/08/17 which is in accordance with the legislation.

Yours sincerely

Jan Mcewan
Information Management Unit

As there is no time period in your request please provide in order that we
may progress - ie for the period 2016..

Your request will remain on hold until we receive your response. Please
note, if we do not hear from you within 20 days this request will be closed
without further contact.

Regards

Jan

From: Freedom of Information Mailbox on 10/07/2017 08:47

Sent by: Jan McEwan

To: K T soloman <[FOI #416863 email]>
cc:
Subject: Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) Request 744/17 - Injury
on duty [NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED] (Document link: Freedom of
Information Mailbox)

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Thank you for your email received today in which you make a request for
information that Northumbria Police may hold in accordance with the Freedom
Of Information Act 2000

We are in the process of dealing with your request and a response should be
provided to you by 07/08/17 which is in accordance with the legislation.

Yours sincerely

Jan Mcewan
Information Management Unit

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

Thank you for your e mail dated 8 July 2017 in which you made a request
for access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria Police.

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of
access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority
(including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:
Could you please provide the below information regarding the Injury on Duty
awards to ex police offices.

1. How many IODs does NP have and please provide a breakdown of each that
are in bands 1-4
2. How Many Reviews have been carried and of what band
3. Whether any were increased.If so by how many bands
4. Whether any Decreased and if so by how many bands
5. Whether any remained the same.
6. Whether any Band Ones were called forward- if the answer is NO; why not
or can I make an inference that it's do the costs of saving money.
The timeframe that I am asking for is 2016 inclusive 2017 present date
breaking these down into bands 1-4.

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I
provide a response for your attention.

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the HR
Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you
have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

1. Band 1: 243
Band 2: 227
Band 3: 110
Band 4: 36

2. Band 4: 10
Band 3: 6

3. No reviews resulted in a Band increase

4. Decrease: 12
Band 4 to Band 1: 3
Band 4 to Band 2: 3
Band 3 to Band 1: 5
Band 2 to Band 1: 1

5. 4 retained the band.

6. The current reviews are in relation to those who were originally
scheduled to be reviewed in 2010. These reviews were halted as a result of
legal challenge and to await clarification of the legal situation in
relation to reviews and their conduct. They re-commenced last year (2016)
following the receipt of that clarification. There is a schedule in place
for the review process, commencing with those people who have never had a
review and those who have not had a review for a considerable period of
time. There were also a group who, following their award or at their last
review, were identified by the Selected Medical Practitioner at the time
as having the potential to change and these are either in the process of
review now or are scheduled to commence review in the next few months.

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a
specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication
of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems
used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures
used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between
forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual
property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be
strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as
amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not
re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

You may be interested to know that Northumbria Police routinely publish
information via the Disclosure Log. The aim of the Disclosure Log is to
promote openness and transparency by voluntarily placing information into
the public arena.

The Disclosure Log contains copies of some of the information that has been
disclosed by Northumbria Police in response to requests made under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Whilst it is not possible to publish all responses we will endeavour to
publish those where we feel that the information disclosed is in the wider
public interest.

The Disclosure Log will be updated once responses have been sent to the
requester.

I have provided the relevant link below.

http://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedom...

How to complain

If you are unhappy with our decision or do not consider that we have
handled your request properly and we are unable to resolve this issue
informally, you are entitled to make a formal complaint to us under our
complaints procedure, attached below

http://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedom...

If you are still unhappy after we have investigated your complaint and
reported to you the outcome, you may complain directly to the Information
Commissioner’s Office and request that they investigate to ascertain
whether we have dealt with your request in accordance with the Act.

Yours sincerely

Michael Cleugh
Data Protection and Disclosure Advisor
Direct Dial: 0191 2956941

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