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Financial Deficits - 479/10

Dated: 07 Jun 2011

Date of request: 09/08/2010

Date of response: 24/08/2010

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

Thank you for your email dated 9 August 2010 in which you made a request for access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria Police.

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

You asked:

  1. Does Northumbria Police Authority currently have a financial deficit in its budget?

  2. If yes, what is the current deficit figure?

  3. And, if yes, what are the reasons for the deficit?

  4. What financial reserves does Northumbria Police Authority currently have at its disposal?

  5. How much does Northumbria Police Authority plan to spend on management consultants in the 2010/11 financial year?

  6. Will the Northumbria Police Chief Officer team accept any bonus payments during the 2010/11 financial year?

  7. If yes, please confirm the amounts (anonymised)

  8. How many non-operational police officers currently work for Northumbria Police?

  9. What roles do these non-operational officers perform?

  10. How many Agency Staff currently work at Northumbria Police?

  11. How many volunteers does Northumbria Police deploy and what is their total cost to the force?  Do not need Special Constables included.  Do want the cost of equipment, clothing and training included plus any other costs incurred by volunteers.

  12. How many police staff posts are funded from partnership money?

  13. Please provide a list of all such partnership funded police staff posts.

In response:

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

  1. As the information you have requested at these points of your request 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 these parts of 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.

    This information is freely available on the following link:- 

    http://online.gateshead.gov.uk/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-3326

  2. As per 1 above.

  3. As per 1 above.

  4. As per 1 above.

  5. The Police Force have no plans to spend on management consultants in the 2010/11 Financial Year, however, to confirm that the Police Authority have no plans this question would also need to be directed to them.

  6. Yes.

  7. The amounts have not yet been determined.

  8. As of 13 August there were 35 officers in non-operational posts.

  9. Position ICF RoleTotal
    Grand Total35
    Chief Superintendent Professional Standards1
    Superintendent Corporate Development2
    Chief Inspector Corporate Development1
    Chief Inspector Staff Officer1
    Inspector Corporate Development2
    Sergeant Corporate Development1
    Sergeant Quality Assurer (QA)2
    Chief Inspector North East Centre for Police Skills (NECPS)1
    Inspector QA and Accreditation Team Leader1
    Inspector3
    Inspector Learning & Development (L&D) Commissioner2
    Sergeant Management of Police Information (MoPI) Project1
    Sergeant Federation1
    Constable Federation1
    Sergeant Staff Office1
    Chief Superintendent Project Lead1
    Chief Inspector Project Officer4
    Sergeant Project Officer3
    Superintendent Project Manager2
    Inspector Project Officer4

  10. None.

  11. None.

  12. 19.

  13. Police Staff funded posts (Partnerships) as at 1 April 2010:-

DeptPartner/sPostFTEComment
Total19.00 
Criminal Justice
Dept		NSRIFixed Penalty Unit - Grade E1.00
NSRIFixed Penalty Unit - Grade C3.00
NSRI/NDORSFixed Penalty Unit - Grade B9.001FTE = NDORS
Operations DeptNSRITraffic Mgt Techs2.00
Newcastle Area
Command		UniversityStudent Liaison Officer1.00
Local AuthorityEducation Liaison Officers3.00

Note:-
Northumbria Safety Roads Initiative (NSRI) and National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) is a partnership arrangement with Police Authority/Local Authorities/HM Courts and Highways Agency.

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.

How to complain

If you are unhappy with our decision or do not consider that we have handled your request properly and we are unable to resolve this issue informally, you are entitled to make a formal complaint to us under our complaints procedure which can be found at: http://www.northumbria.police.uk/foi/disclosurelog/foicomprights.asp

If you are still unhappy after we have investigated your complaint and reported to you the outcome, you may complain directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office and request that they investigate to ascertain whether we have dealt with your request in accordance with the Act.

Yours sincerely

Michael Cleugh
Data Protection and Disclosure Advisor
Direct Dial:  01661 868347

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