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If it contains an initial (new) request under FOI it will be dealt with in
accordance with section 10 of the Act which means that you are entitled to
receive a response no later than 20 working days after the first working
day* on which your request is received.

Other arrangements may apply if a fees notice is issued or if the time
period is extended in order that public interest considerations of our
response may take place. Section 10 also allows public authorities to
apply variations to the normal 20 working day timescale in some limited
circumstances.

Due to the volume of e-mail correspondence and FOI applications received,
the Force regrets that individual acknowledgement e-mails will not be sent
even if specifically requested.

If the correspondence cannot be dealt with as FOI, it will be forwarded
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Dear Applicant,

Response Letter - FOI Application DJ 2024 - 1059 MERPOL (please quote in
all correspondence)

I write in connection with your request for information which was received
by Merseyside Police. I note that you seek access to the following
information:

(Paraphrased) Copy of a risk assessment.

Following receipt for your request searches were conducted within the
Merseyside Police to locate information relevant to your request.

The result of the searches to located information relevant to your request
are shown on the attached response table.

I have today been authorized by the senior decision maker in this case, to
disclose the located information to you, as attached. Please find attached
above, the response table with information.

Complaint Rights

Your attention is drawn to the information following this response, which
details your rights review and of complaint.           

Should you have any further inquiries concerning this matter, please write
or e-mail me, at the below address, quoting the reference number above.

Yours faithfully

D Jackson

D Jackson

Disclosure Analyst

Merseyside Police

Data Access Unit (FOI)

PO BOX 2122

LIVERPOOL

L3 3YW

E-mail:  [Merseyside Police request email]

Schedule(s) of disclosed information:   Please see attachment at the top
of the e-mail.

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Dear Applicant,

I refer to you below e-mail.

The internal review was registered, and a response sent to WDTK.com on the 10th September 2024, completing the internal review process.

As a result of this e-mail the WDTK.com site has been searched and it appears that there are two entries for your application and internal review. The links located are:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

I do not know why there are two entries on WDTK.com which are different, that is a matter you will have to take up with WDTK.com staff.

In respect of the response to the Internal review, Internal Review 2024-IR-1221, I have attached above a scanned copy of the response e-mail.
Having regard to your application and your subsequent internal review, I believe that you may not be content with the response to the internal review.

I can only draw your attention to section 1, Freedom of Information Act, 2000, were at the general right of access is described as relating to , 'the public authority whether it holds information of the description specified in the request' and then 'if that is the case, to have the information communicated to him'.

Your FOI request [DJ2024-1059], the request was that the 'risk assessments' be supplied. As stated in the response no information is held.
Your e-mail below is referring to an entirely different matter, 'information in relation to risk management of protests'.

You are entitled to make a FOI application to the Force for the information that you seek. Please bear in mind the FOI obligation and be precise in respect of any wording used in a future FOI application.
I must tell you that because of the disorder, the Force implemented as publication strategy, which is operative until 11th October 2024, and one of the heads of information is "Decision Making
Gold/Silver Group Minutes - Minutes of joint strategy meetings, Policing plans". As such if an FOI application falls within the publication strategy, the Force is entitled to apply the section 22, exemption provision.

I trust the above answers why you believe that a response to the internal review had not been sent and informs you about the original response.

To avoid any issues at WDTK.com you may wish to send any future application by the SOH on-line application, which will provide you with a reference number. The link is: https://www.merseyside.police.uk/rqo/req...

Yours faithfully,

D. Jackson
Disclosure Analyst
Merseyside Police.

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