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School Based Officers - 1328/20

Date Responded 17 September 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:

  1. Please provide data on the total number of schools in your area that have school-based police officers?
  2. And whether there are plans for this number (in total) to increase in 2020-2021?

Please can this be broken down by:

(i) The name of the school

(ii) The number of officers based at the school currently.

In Response:

  1. As the information you have requested is accessible by other means I have not provided you with a copy of the information and will rely on Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  You should therefore consider this a refusal for your request.

I have provided an explanation to this exemption below.

Section 21 (1) - Information accessible by other means

Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant is exempt information.

Similar requests have been made, responded to and published on the Northumbria Police Disclosure Log for public review, FOI 485/20 refers and the link to the Log is below.

This information is available publicly and S21 is therefore relevant.

I can confirm the information is still relevant.

2  No information held. As of the date of this submission no information was held regarding this point.

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.

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