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West Midlands Police
14 August 2017, Police and criminal justice
The complainant has requested information about a recent promotion to Chief Inspector campaign from West Midlands Police (“WMP”). WMP provided most of the information but refused the name of a police force on the basis that it was personal information and therefore exempt by virtue of section 40(2) (personal information) of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the WMP has incorrectly applied the exemption for personal data at section 40(2) of the FOIA as the withheld information is sufficiently anonymised to take it out of the definition of personal data. She therefore requires WMP to disclose the information withheld under section 40(2).
FOI 40: Upheld