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Date Responded 25 July 2018

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:

I am aware that ''closed'' Police personnel files are stored at Woodhorn Archives, Ashington and the file remains ''closed'' until 70 years after the last entry on the file.

Woodhorn have advised me that since 2008, they have received 12 requests for access to closed Northumberland Constabulary/Northumbria Police personnel files and out of these 12 requests, Northumbria Police have declined 3 of them.

Could you please confirm, under the FOI Act, that 3 requests have been declined and 9 requests allowed

In Response:

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Information Management Unit of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is not held by Northumbria Police. Any such requests are dealt with on a case by case basis and we do not retain them.

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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