'Police officers and staff death data'
Dear Northumbria Police,
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information.
I would like to receive the following figures on police officer and staff deaths, with separate figures for police officers, PCSOs and police staff:
In each of the last five calendar years (2012-2016), how many police officers/PCSOs/staff employed by your force died (whether or not in the course of their duties)?
Of those, how many were recorded as having died by suicide each year?
Figures broken down by cause of death in each of the last five calendar years.
I would like to receive this information in an electronic format, via email.
On receiving this email, please send a response acknowledging that you have received it and will respond within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Yours faithfully,
Carlotta Dotto
The Times
Please confirm who the requester is as the sign off name and the e mail address names differ.
Once this is clear we can then progress.
Regards
Jan Mcewan
Information Management Unit
Hello,
I confirm the name of the requester is Carlotta Dotto.
Yours sincerely,
Carlotta Dotto
Carlotta
There is no request in your email can so can you advise what it is your asking for?
I can see we sought clarity from the below but the actual request is not there.
Once this is provided we can progress accordingly
Regards
Jan
Dear Northumbria Police,
The response to my FOI request has been delayed for more than 20 days. I'm writing you to request an acknowledgement of my request.
Yours faithfully,
Carlotta Dotto
Carlotta
To comply with Section 8 of the Act, we sought clarity from you on the 7th of December as to the requesters name, and advised once we were in receipt of that we could progress your request.
You then sent a response to that query which we received only yesterday, 9th January .
Unfortunately your questions were not on that response so, by return, we asked you to supply your queries to enable us to progress,
We are still awaiting your response.
Once we are in receipt of your request it will be acknowledged and progressed.
Regards
Jan
Hello,
I confirm that the name of the requester is Carlotta Dotto.
Yours sincerely,
Carlotta Dotto
Carlotta
You still need to supply us with your request?
What is it you are looking for
As per the previous e mail , we asked you to supply your queries to enable us to progress, we are still awaiting your response.
Regards
Jan
Hello,
I would like to receive the following figures on police officer and staff deaths, with separate figures for police officers, PCSOs and police staff:
In each of the last five calendar years (2012-2016), how many police officers/PCSOs/staff employed by your force died (whether or not in the course of their duties)?
Of those, how many were recorded as having died by suicide each year?
Figures broken down by cause of death in each of the last five calendar years.
Thank you,
Carlotta Dotto
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 08/02/2018 which is in accordance with the legislation.
Yours sincerely
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 11^th January 2018 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:
I would like to receive the following figures on police officer and staff
deaths, with separate figures for police officers, PCSOs and police staff:
In each of the last five calendar years (2012-2016),
1. how many police officers/PCSOs/staff employed by your force died
(whether or not in the course of their duties)?
2. Of those, how many were recorded as having died by suicide each year?
3. Figures broken down by cause of death in each of the last five calendar
years.
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 Human
Resources Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the
information you have requested is held in part by Northumbria Police.
I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.
1. 2012 – 3 x police officers, 1 x police staff
2013 – 1 x police officer
2014 – 1 x police officer, 2 x police staff
2015 – Nil
2016 – 1 x police staff
There have been no PCSO deaths.
2. No information held. We do not record this.
3. No information held. We do not record this.
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.
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whether we have dealt with your request in accordance with the Act.
Yours sincerely
Michael Cleugh
Data Protection and Disclosure Advisor
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