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 02/05/2018 which is in accordance with the legislation.

Yours sincerely

Information Management Unit

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Mr Watson,

Just to inform you, with regards to the two FOI's that you have submitted. This one, FOI 353/18 and FOI 352/18, these will both be aggregated for time and cost as they are on the same subject matter.

Regards.

Shirley

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

Thank you for your e mail dated 3^rd April 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 obliged for a copy of the report subject of an agenda of the
Executive Board of Northumbria Police which took place on the 19th June
2015.

The report from, the then, Director of Human Resources, recommended
restarting the 'review' of Injury Pensions payable to retired, injured
officers, and which provides figures of savings to be made on subsequent
successful reductions of officers pensions.

I would also be obliged for the minutes of the meeting when the
recommendation was approved, with of course any extraneous and sensitive
'other material' suitably redacted.

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.

With regards to the request for a  copy of the report – see attached.

With regards to the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Board of
Northumbria Police which took place on the 19th June 2015, I respond as
below.

As the information you have requested is accessible by other means I have
not provided you with a copy of the information and will rely on Section
21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  You should therefore consider
this a refusal for your request.

I have provided an explanation to this exemption below.

Section 21 (1) - Information accessible by other means

Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant is exempt
information.

The minutes of all these meetings are published as a matter of course and
can be found on the Northumbria Police website by searching for ‘Executive
Board’ These are published from 2014 to date.  The link to the website is
provided below.

[1]https://www.northumbria.police.uk/

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.

[2]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

[3]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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