Steve Ashman (Northumbria Police) Complaints while Deputy Chief Constable? - Martin McGartland request
Martin McGartland
30 June 2017
Dear Northumbria Police,
I would like you to supply me with information on all complaints made against Steve Ashman while he was Deputy Chief Constable.
I would like to also know;
1. How many complaints were made against Steve Ashman while he was Deputy Chief Constable?
I would like the data broken into date order and I am requiring it to include all complaints, even those that were not recorded.
I do not wish for you to disclose any personal data relating to Steve Ashman. The information that I am requesting relates to Mr Ashman in his public facing role as Chief Officer of Northumbria Police.
Yours faithfully,
Martin McGartland
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 31/07/17 which is in accordance with the
legislation.
Yours sincerely
Shirley Scott
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 30 June 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:
I would like you to supply me with information on all complaints made
against Steve Ashman while he was Deputy Chief Constable.
I would like to also know;
1. How many complaints were made against Steve Ashman while he was Deputy
Chief Constable?
I would like the data broken into date order and I am requiring it to
include all complaints, even those that were not recorded.
I do not wish for you to disclose any personal data relating to Steve
Ashman. The information that I am requesting relates to Mr Ashman in his
public facing role as Chief Officer of Northumbria Police.
We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I
provide a response for your attention.
We have taken this opportunity to re-visit the request and have given
consideration to the recent Decision Notice dated the 25th April 2017
issued regarding your requests and a previous decision notice from 3rd
July 2012, again relating to you and regarding a similar request related
to the disclosure of complaint data regarding a Senior Serving Officer
within Northumbria Police. That decision notice stated that Northumbria
Police was entitled to apply Section 40(5)(b)(i) of the Act and that this
exemption was indeed engaged.
Having reviewed other requests submitted by you, I believe that this
request is linked to the other numerous requests you have submitted and
therefore can fairly be classed as vexatious in its nature.
You have been in touch with Northumbria Police for many years regarding
dissatisfaction with the on-going investigation into the incident when you
were shot in 1999.
We did initially consult the Decision Notice issued in 2012 (ICO reference
FS50435641) which was about another senior Officer involved in the same
investigation (Superintendent Chris Thomson). That Decision Notice
determined that information about that Senior Officer was classed as
personal data and disclosure could fairly be resisted.
That named Officer was the target of a campaign and was the subject of
eight separate FOI requests from those classed as working in concert. You
have used these requests along with other websites to further a campaign
against this other named Officer. This request is indicative of the
beginning of a similar campaign against another Officer.
It is apparent that you target Senior Officers who may be involved in your
issues with Northumbria Police.
You have submitted a large volume of requests and many of these requests
are overlapping and often mix accusations and have become manifestly
unreasonable and burdensome, in terms of the resources required to deal
with them.
The requests submitted regarding Officers form a small part of a large
volume of requests submitted by you. Many requests mix accusations and are
placed into a public arena in an effort to further grievances against
Northumbria Police.
It is clear that you have issues with Officers that have dealt with you
and you use public facing arenas to air these grievances. A simple
internet search brings back multiple entries specifically about Mr Ashman
and in my view it is clear from the type and nature of the data available
in such searches that you are using the FOIA arena to further this
campaign against Mr Ashman. Your recent Decision Notice from the 25th
April 2017 stated, “there is no wider value or purpose beyond the
complainant’s public pursuit of his grievance against Northumbria Police”
and my view is that this request is yet another example where he exploits
the FOIA process to embarrass and harass Senior Officers within
Northumbria Police in an attempt to further his own grievance.
A further Decision Notice dated 11 July 2017 also confirms that your
requests submitted about Senior officers can correctly be classed as
vexatious.
It is clear that this request and other requests have been made as a
direct result of concerns about the handling of the investigation.
Responses that have been supplied have almost inevitably been followed up
by further requests for information, requests for clarification and
requests for internal reviews.
I believe that you are attempting to use the What Do They Know arena in an
effort to somehow embarrass and harass Northumbria Police. I draw your
attention to the recent Decision Notice and set out in the Reason for
Decision that the Commissioner stated that the continued approaches from
Mr McGartland were “unreasonable and that the public comments made by the
complainant amounted to harassment of Northumbria Police and its staff”.
It is my belief that you are again, via this request and the What Do They
Know platform, pursuing his campaign against staff members of Northumbria
Police and that your intention is to use the data to unfairly discredit Mr
Ashman.
As a result of the above, your request can be fairly be classed as
vexatious and accordingly no response is required.
Please note that following this response, requests on this and related
matters will be classed as vexatious and no acknowledgement or response
will be provided.
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.
[1]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
[2]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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References
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Martin McGartland
20 July 2017
Dear Northumbria Police,
It is very clear that you are once again covering up details about complaints that have been made against another (Ashman) and are lying to do so by making your latest false claims against me as a result of my exposing police corruption and cover up in my cases by DCC Winton "CoverUp" Keenen and Northumbria Police.
You refer to an ICO Decision Notice and set out in the Reason for Decision that stated “unreasonable and that the public comments made by the complainant amounted to harassment of Northumbria Police and its staff”. Those lies, false information were given to the ICO by you (including DCC Winton Keenen).
Let us all remind ourselves of what Northumbria Police's position was for 18 years during the time that they were lying and covering up (including by Winton Keenen) of the smear campaign against me during the time when I was fighting for my life. When Northumbria Police lied to the press (In Secret) by connecting my shooting to drugs, criminal gangs And more importantly by stating that my shooting was nothing at all to do with the IRA. Northumbria Police (including DCC "Cover-Up" Winton Keenen and Superintendent Chris "Where is her now" Thomson) covered up that smear campaign for 18 years. They lied and Lied and lied until my own investigations uncovered the evidence, the "smoking gun", in the form of 3 sworn independent
court witness statments that not only proved that Northumbria Police was behind the smearing of me But also that they had been behind the 18 year cover up. It was only then that Northumbria Police (And DCC Keenen were forced, while kicking and screaming, into coming clean and telling the truth. If it were not for my investigations Northumbria Police and DCC Keenen would have continuted with thier lies, their corruption and cover up. {The Evidence EX01 - the 3 sworn independent Court Witness Statements: https://www.scribd.com/document/34925451... }
Northumbria Police, while lying to ICO about the history of my case, omitted most of their deeds, they concealed the corruption from the ICO. Also, Northumbria Police did not make the ICO aware that DCC Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police covered up my complaints that I made to the force relating to the smearing of me, the 18 year cover up. That DCC Winton Keenen, Northumbria Police delayed my smear complaint for 3 years and them whitewashed it, never investigated my smear complaint. He even lied by claiming it was a Direction and Control matter { The Evidence EX02 - Winton Keenen Whitewash - Refer to page 23; https://www.scribd.com/document/73581080... }
And that Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police failed to investigated a new complaint that I made (when I uncovered the 3 sworn witeness statements) in 2014. That too was delayed by a further 3 years. Then Winton Keen and Northumbria Police applied to the IPCC to disapply the complaint But they concealed the 3 sworn witness statements and other compelling evidence from the IPCC. The end result was that the IPCC ordered that my smear complaint be investigated. The IPCC, in there decision letter, pointed out that Northumbria police had lied (inconsistencies) regarding the smearing of me at different stages.
Winton Keenen (his PSD) and Northumbria Police are continuing with the corruption by investigating my smear complaint even when they have been at the coal-face of the corruption, the cover ups (and whitewashes) relating to it, my case for the past 18 years. My smear complaint will result in another Northumbria Police, Winton Keenen whitewash, even further corruption.; Further Info regards the smearing of me by Northumbria Police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjqphnDx...
No proper investigation will ever be carried out as long as Winton Keenen, his PSD and Northumbria Police is involved with my cases. Winton Keenen lied in emails about an apology that he knew had never been given to me. Did Northumbria Police tell the ICO that? Of course not, butter wouldn't melt.
Northumbria Police also failed to tell the ICO that Winton Keenen lied to me about the Roger Ford review. Winton Keenen covered up the Roger Ford review (and the findings) from me as the victim. He also deliberately chose to ignore Roger Fords recommendations. In fact, Winton Keenen concealed those from me as the victim. He also covered up the findings, recommendations because of the overall cover up in my case. Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police have been protecting not only the IRA But also the IRA terrorists who tried to murder me. All this was concealed from the ICO.
Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police concealed over information from ICO including the important fact (further corruption) that the DNA of the person who tried to murder me was deliberately kept off the DNA Database for more than for more than 8 years. The too was done to protect the IRA, the IRA terrorist who tried to murder me. I, from my own investigations, uncovered this. This too was covered up from me as the victim by Northumbria Police. It was only at that stage that Northumbria Police was again forced (while kicking and screaming) into admitting to further corruption.
This, and a great deal more, has been covered up, never been investigated by Northumbria Police, Winton Keenen. Why? Because Winton Keenen (his old bosses) were responsible for the corruption, they all played a part. I could write a book about the corruption in my cases.
Winton Keenen has lied to me as the victim at every stage. Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police, so far as I and my cases are concerned, have been dragged kicking and screaming into admitting that they had lied, covered up and smeared me. I have been vindicated. I have also shown, when it concerns me, my cases, that Winton Keenen has lied time and again, has covered up my cases (and whitewashed my complaints), have been protecting the people, the terrorists (and the IRA) who tried to murder me.
Moreover, the evidence shows that had I not have pursued my case, exposed the corruption, the lies, the cover ups that Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police would have continued with thir cover up, the corruption in my cases. My attempted murder case would have been brushed under the carpet and the terrorists would continue to be protected from arrest.
The latest Winton Keenen, Northumbria Police lies (and corruption) and the false claims of "harassment of Northumbria Police and its staff” by me because, according to Team Winton of a "grievances". is nothing other than more lies. All I have done, will continue to do, is to expose the corruption, the abuses of power by Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police as well as the cover ups by them in my cases and the scandalous abuse of power.
The fact is that the latest Lie, False claim by Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police against me of "harassment" is nothing more than pure PoppyCock. More corruption, lying, giving false, incomplete information to ICO just to keep all of the complaints made against DCC Keenen secret (coveredup) from the public.
I have all the evidence I would need to backup (and prove) everything I have ever written and said about Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police so far as my cases are concerned. I wounder why the ICO never asked the important question. Why has no action ever been taken against Martin McGartland? The answer is simple. Because Winton "Coverup" Keenen and Northumbria Police will be well aware that they would have to give evidence and face cross-examination from me. Winton Keenen and Northumbria Police are not that stupid.
I am doing a public a service by Exposing corruption. Winton Keenen, his PSD is the one who is covering up details about complaints made against him, why would he do that. What is he hiding.
These are just the latest of many dirty tricks shamefully, disgustingly, and disgracefully employed by Winton "cover up" Keenen and Northumbria Police against me over the years. There will be many more Uncomfortable truths which will be exposed at a later date. Truth sounds like Hate to those who Hate the Truth.
Yours sincerely,
Martin McGartland
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25 Years of Serious CORRUPTION by Northumbria Police - from the very Top down - in the Martin McGartland cases ....
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Northumbria Police (NP) malicious / false ‘vexatious’ claims (their Lies) are nothing new. NP have been using and abusing same by to cover up their gross misconduct – and misfeasance in public office by their Bent officers who are (and were) involved in the Martin McGartland's cases. They having been lying about ‘vexatious’ for more than 7 years, see ICO 2011 decision notice in which they found that request was NOT ‘vexatious’,
https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-tak...
NP, Winton Keenen will say (and do) anything to cover up their corruption in the Martin McGartland cases.