FAQ Details
Information re Rights - 105/10
Dated: 07 Jun 2011
Date of request: 17/02/2010
Date of response: 02/03/2010
Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')(FOIA)
Thank you for your email dated 17 February 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:
How many individual police stations are there in your area?
How many of these individual police stations currently provide blind and partially-sighted persons with information with regard to their rights and Act (PACE) 1964, in all of the following formats:
- Large Print (ie 16 point or above);
- Audio; and
- Braille
- Large Print (ie 16 point or above);
Please identify by name the individual police stations that do not provide all of the formats identified in (2) above (ie THE police stations that do not currently provide blind and partially-sighted persons with this information in:
- Large Print (ie 16 point or above);
- Audio; and
- Braille
- Large Print (ie 16 point or above);
In response:
We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.
As the information you have requested at this part 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 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 Northumbria Police website. In order to aid and assist you further I have provided the relevant link below.
http://www.northumbria.police.uk/contact_us/police_stations/All Northumbria Police custody suites can provide a detainee with a notice of their entitlements in large print.
All Northumbria Police custody suites can provide access to an audio file of entitlements in English and other languages.
None of Northumbria Police custody suites currently provide a notice of entitlements in a Braille format. The Force is currently seeking advice from the Home Office as to whether suites should provide this.
As per 2 iii) above none of Northumbria Police custody suites currently provide a notice of entitlements in a Braille format, however the force is currently in consultation with the Home Office as to the provision of this.
Northumbria Police also adhere to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Disability Discrimination Bill 2000.
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.