FOI & SAR Compliance (1644A/22)
Request
For period April 2021 to date please advise:
- How many FOI requests have been received?
- How many were complied with within the 20 working days
- How many Subject Access Requests have been received?
- How many were complied with in timescale
Response
Please find attached (1644A_22_attachment.pdf). Please note, all forces are required to submit FOI and SAR performance statistics to the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) each month. The data provided are taken from these monthly submissions and include additional information that you may find useful. Figures are correct as at each month end.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.