Covid-19 Positive Police Officers - 1455/20

Date Responded 08 October 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

Under the FOI Act 2000, can you tell me how many police officers on the force have tested positive for coronavirus.

Can you please provide the month of the positive test?
Can you please categorise them by rank?

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the People Services Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows, which has been presented in a way which avoids the use of Section 40 – Personal Information being applied to withhold.
There were no instances in the months not included below

Month	PC	SGT & ABOVE
Jan	1	1
Apr	13	2
May	1	1
Sep	20	1
Test Date Not Known	4

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.