Information Commissioner's Office

Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service

7 July 2016, Police and criminal justice

The complainant has made 3 related information requests about Elaine Antoinette Parent who was wanted for murder and committed suicide in 2002. Having cited various exemptions, following partial disclosure the Metropolitan Police Service (the ‘MPS’) withheld the remaining information citing sections 31(1) (law enforcement), 38(1) (health and safety), and 40(2) (personal information). It also neither confirmed nor denied holding any further information, citing sections 23(5) (information supplied by, or relating to, bodies dealing with security matters) and 27(4) (international relations). The Commissioner’s decision is that the MPS was entitled to rely on sections 31(1) and 38(1) and also on the exclusion to neither confirm nor deny whether further information is held by virtue of section 23(5). No steps are required.

FOI 25: Not upheld FOI 31: Not upheld FOI 38: Not upheld