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David Mery

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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 55)

Average detention time when using right to legal advice and when not
Follow up sent to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery on 25 August 2017.

Partially successful

Dear Mr Wilson, Thank you for your very detailed eventual review. This is much appreciated. Even though you consider 'the difference between the 2...
Met Detention Equality Impact Assessment
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 18 June 2016.

Partially successful

Wrote a related blog post at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2016/06/eia_flawed_consultation_process.html
Average detention time
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 22 April 2016.

Successful

I've analysed this data at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2016/04/mps_custody_duration_detention.html
CJS Autism Group
Response by Ministry of Justice to David Mery on 15 September 2015.

Partially successful

      This e-mail (and any attachment) is intended only for the attention of the addressee(s). Its unauthorised use, disclosure, storage or copy...
PNC Board minutes & PNC autism marker
Response by Home Office to David Mery on 5 August 2015.

Partially successful

Dear Mr Mery, Please find attached response to your FOI request. Please accept my apologies for the delay. Regards, Andy Woodgate Knowledge and Inf...
Joint mental health protocols
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 6 July 2015.

Successful

To A. Tehrani, These are joint protocols, some authorities are limiting the scope to s136 but others are more encompassing and also cover s135.
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 6 June 2015.

Partially successful

Thanks John, I included both the Independent and the I news stories and linked to all the versions of the report at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2015/0...
PNC Board minutes & PNC autism marker
Follow up sent to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery on 19 May 2015.

Successful

Dear Ms Taylor, Thank you for the agenda. Yours faithfully, David Mery
PNC Board minutes & PNC autism marker
Follow up sent to The Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland by David Mery on 7 May 2015.

Successful

Dear Ms Traquair, Thank you for your response. Yours faithfully, David Mery
River House 2012-10-01 critical incident FoI issues
Follow up sent to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery on 26 February 2015.

Partially successful

Dear Mr Tunmore and Soncul, Thank you for the attached correspondence. Yours sincerely, David Mery
River House 2012-10-01 critical incident FoI issue
Follow up sent to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery on 20 November 2014.

Successful

Dear Ms McGuire, Thank you for the attachments and also for your earlier response. I appreciate you didn't need the full delay you anticipated. You...
River House 2012-10-01 critical incident
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 12 July 2014.

Partially successful

Information from the received Taser forms has been sent as a supplementary evidence to the Home Affairs Committee's inquiry into policing and mental he...
Usage data of Moodle
Follow up sent to City St George's, University of London (Clerkenwell and Moorgate) by David Mery on 23 May 2014.

Information not held

Dear Ms Llewellyn, Thank you for your eventual assistance and clarification. Yours sincerely, David Mery
Implementation of the recommendations that came out of the investigation into the River House 2012-10-01 incidents
Follow up sent to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery on 2 May 2014.

Successful

Dear Ms Kazeem, Thank you for your response. Yours sincerely, David Mery
River House 2012-10-01 incident
Follow up sent to Monitor by David Mery on 5 April 2014.

Partially successful

Dear Mr Turner, Thank you for your response. Yours sincerely, David Mery
River House 2012-10-01 incident
Request to Care Quality Commission by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Partially successful

This request was mentioned in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House 2012-10-01 critical incident
Request to Independent Office for Police Conduct by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Information not held

This request was mentioned in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House 2012-10-01 incident
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Partially successful

This request was mentioned in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Refused

This request was mentioned in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Successful

This request was mentioned in the article http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
MHA s136
Response by South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust to David Mery on 28 January 2014.

Partially successful

Dear Mr Mery, In July 2013 you submitted the following request to us for information under the Freedom of Information Act: Our Ref: Date Received...
MHA s136
Request to North London NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 20 November 2013.

Information not held

Helen, thanks for the info. The link you include is broken. The page mentioned is at http://www.cqc.org.uk/directory/taf01 And the October inspectio...
MHA s136
Follow up sent to North East London NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery on 11 November 2013.

Partially successful

Dear Jaina, Thank you for eventually sending these tables. Yours sincerely, David Mery
MHA s136
Follow up sent to Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery on 3 October 2013.

Partially successful

Dear Cidney Lucas, Thank you for this response. Yours sincerely, David Mery
MHA s136
Follow up sent to West London NHS Trust by David Mery on 30 September 2013.

Partially successful

Dear FoI team, Thank you for this response. Yours sincerely, David Mery
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This person's 72 annotations

Met Detention Equality Impact Assessment
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 18 June 2016.

Partially successful

Wrote a related blog post at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2016/06/eia_flawed_consultation_process.html
Average detention time
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 22 April 2016.

Successful

I've analysed this data at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2016/04/mps_custody_duration_detention.html
Joint mental health protocols
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 6 July 2015.

Successful

To A. Tehrani, These are joint protocols, some authorities are limiting the scope to s136 but others are more encompassing and also cover s135.
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 6 June 2015.

Partially successful

Thanks John, I included both the Independent and the I news stories and linked to all the versions of the report at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2015/0...
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 24 April 2015.

Partially successful

Some extracts from this report, as well as the status of the remaining redactions, are written about at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2015/04/what_did_s...
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 30 January 2015.

Partially successful

The ICO has decided agains SLaM that it must unredact its full report by March 25th. Link to the decision notice at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2015/0...
River House 2012-10-01 critical incident
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 12 July 2014.

Partially successful

Information from the received Taser forms has been sent as a supplementary evidence to the Home Affairs Committee's inquiry into policing and mental he...
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 19 June 2014.

Partially successful

This latest response is the focus of a supplementary evidence to the Home Affairs Committee's inquiry into Policing and Mental Health: http://gizmonau...
River House 2012-10-01 critical incident
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 29 March 2014.

Partially successful

I linked to the internal review in http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/more_police_offices_use_more_tasers_more_often.html
River House 2012-10-01 incident
Request to Monitor by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Partially successful

This request was referenced in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House 2012-10-01 incident
Request to Care Quality Commission by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Partially successful

This request was mentioned in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House 2012-10-01 critical incident
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Partially successful

This request was mentioned in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House 2012-10-01 critical incident
Request to Independent Office for Police Conduct by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Information not held

This request was mentioned in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House 2012-10-01 incident
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Partially successful

This request was mentioned in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Refused

This request was mentioned in the article at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Successful

This request was mentioned in the article http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/03/SLaM_attempted_cover-up_over_massive_police_deployment.html
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 21 March 2014.

Partially successful

The full saga to get SLaM to be more transparent about this incident (and hopefully more generally) is published at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2014/0...
New policy on whatdotheyknow.com
Request to Brent Borough Council by M Bimmler. Annotated by David Mery on 7 March 2014.

Partially successful

All these comments have been very useful when writing a response to the CQC in this request: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/river_house_2012_10...
River House 2012-10-01 incident
Request to Care Quality Commission by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 7 March 2014.

Partially successful

S v Information Commissioner and the General Register Office (EA2006/0030; 9 May 2007) is currently available at http://foiwiki.com/foiwiki/info_trib...
River House 2012-10-01 incident
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 8 February 2014.

Partially successful

This request has also been mentioned in http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/concerns-raised-safety-black-patients
River House 2012-10-01 incident
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 27 January 2014.

Partially successful

This request was mentioned in http://www.blackmentalhealth.org.uk/index.php/news/news-archive/1506-alarm-at-armed-police-officers-being-called-onto-men...
MHA s136
Request to North London NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 20 November 2013.

Information not held

Helen, thanks for the info. The link you include is broken. The page mentioned is at http://www.cqc.org.uk/directory/taf01 And the October inspectio...
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 30 August 2013.

Partially successful

The report has eventually been published at http://www.slam.nhs.uk/about-us/policy-and-publications/external-reviews and the direct link to the PDF is...
MHA s136
Request to West London NHS Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 29 July 2013.

Partially successful

Opal, yes! If this topic is of interest to you, check out my FoI requests (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/david_mery) as I've done several other...
River House incident's investigation report
Request to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust by David Mery. Annotated by David Mery on 17 July 2013.

Refused

The link for the minutes of the November 2012 board meeting mentioned in the request went dead. SLaM republished these minutes at http://www.slam.nhs.u...
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