Link to IOC for full Decision notice pdf file: Chief Constable Greater Manchester Police (Police and criminal justice) [2025] UKICO 343482 (13 May 2025)
The complainant requested information connected with the visit of Wuhan police officers to Greater Manchester Police ('GMP') in late May/early June 2019. GMP responded, providing some information, stating it did not hold some and exempting the remainder. During the Commissioner's investigation, only part 1 of the request remained in scope for "the risk assessment document regarding this visit". Once GMP had provided the withheld risk assessment to the Commissioner, he noticed that the October 2019 date postdated the Wuhan visit referenced in the request. He queried this with GMP, who said it had misinterpreted the request. GMP then searched for a risk assessment held in connection with the earlier 2019 visit and said no recorded information was held. The complainant remained dissatisfied. The Commissioner's decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, no recorded information is held for part 1 of the request.