Police training: Latin America
Dear College of Policing Limited,
I'd like details of any police training given by the UK to Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Brazil for the years 2018, 2019, 2020, and any projected training for the year 2021.
1) How many people from each country have undergone training
2) Where have they undergone training
3) What was the nature of the training
4) What was the date of the training
5) Cost of training
Yours faithfully,
Kevin McEvoy
Dear Kevin,
Thank you for your email. I can confirm we have received your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We will aim to respond within 20 working days, but if you have any further questions in the meantime, please feel free to email back in.
Kind regards,
Kate.
Dear Kevin,
Thank you for your patience. Please find attached response to your Freedom of Information Act request.
Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any further requests.
Kind regards,
Abi
Abi Robertson
Legal Services Manager
Corporate Services
College of Policing
college.police.uk
Dear College FOI,
I'd like to request an internal review on this decision, on a number of grounds:
1) It is within the public interest to know whether the UK is training the police of human rights abusing states, such as Colombia, where you have acknowledged that police are being trained.
The UN recognises that the Colombian police are, each year, responsible for serious human rights abuses:
https://reliefweb.int/report/colombia/si...
It follows that it is also within the public interest to know the nature of this training, cost, and how many individuals were trained.
2) you have not provided me with all of the information that I requested, namely the nature of the training, date of the training, and cost of the training. Moreover, I find it unlikely that you are unaware of the number of individuals that have been trained in Colombia*. In the event that you do not have an exact number, please provide an estimate.
3) it is not clear from your response whether N/A means you have not trained police from/in Bolivia, Brazil and/or Ecuador*, or that you hold information regarding these countries but it is exempt from disclosure.
Yours sincerely,
Kevin McEvoy
Dear Kevin,
Thank you for emailing in. I can confirm we have processed your internal review and it has been allocated to a member of the team.
We will aim to respond within 20 working days.
Kind regards,
Kate.
Our reference: REV-2021-001
Good afternoon
Thank you for your patience while we conducted the internal review. Please find our response attached
Kind regards
Sarah
Sarah Lawrence
Legal Advisor
Legal Services
College of Policing
college.police.uk
Dear College FOI,
Thanks for the response.
I mistakenly did not add: can you also confirm that you have not trained any Chilean police?
Yours sincerely,
Kevin
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