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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2022/126395.html
Cite as: [2022] UKICO 126395

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Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner for Cheshire

The complainant has requested from the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cheshire (‘the OPCC’), information about the number of frontline police officers in Cheshire Constabulary. The OPCC said that it did not hold the requested information. It also argued that the request was not a valid request for information under FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the request met the requirements of section 8 (Requests for information) of FOIA and thus it constituted a valid request for information. He is also satisfied that, on the civil standard of the balance of probabilities, the OPCC does not hold the information described in the request. However, by failing to confirm that it did not hold the requested information within the statutory time for compliance, the OPCC breached section 1(1)(a) (General right of access) and section 10 (Time for compliance) of FOIA. The Commissioner requires no steps as a result of this decision.

FOI 10: Complaint upheld FOI 1: Complaint partly upheld

Decision notice: 126395