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Home Office (Decision Notice) [2013] UKICO FS50455907 (08 July 2013)
Summary: The complainant has requested the names and ranks of the persons who currently hold, or had previously held, one of three roles under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000, specifically, Senior Responsible Officer, Designated Person and Single Point of Contact on behalf of each of the police forces in England and Wales. The Home Office initially withheld the requested information under Section 40(2) of the Act (personal data). During the course of the Commissioner-™s investigation the Home Office also applied Section 31(1)(a) (prevention or detection of crime), Section 38 (health and safety) and Section 23(1) (security bodies) to the information falling within scope of the request. The Home Office also refused to confirm or deny whether it held any further information on the basis of Section 23(5) of FOIA. The Commissioner finds that the Home Office correctly applied Section 23(1) to the information requested by the complainant and that it is therefore exempt by virtue of this exemption. However, the Commissioner finds that the Home Office incorrectly applied Section 23(5) to neither confirm nor deny whether it held any further information beyond that requested by the complainant.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 23 - Complaint Partly Upheld