Our Ref:

004436/13

Your Ref:
Address Correspondence to:

Steven Morris, Information Management

Date

19 August 2013

Dear Mr Jones,
Freedom of Information Act 2000
I write further to your request for information received 16/08/2013.
I note you seek access to the following information:
1.
A copy of the review of Operation Aeroscope undertaken by the East Midlands
Regional Review Unit.
2.

The terms of reference for the review.

3.

Details of:

a.
The number of staff that worked on the review and their respective
rank/position;
b.

The total number of working hours devoted to the review;

c.

The total cost of undertaking the review;

d.

A list of persons interviewed for the review and their respective rank/position

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within Leicestershire
Police to locate information relevant to your request.
Your request for information has now been considered and the information
asked for is as follows: Further to my previous correspondence I can confirm that Questions 1 and 2 of your
request have been passed to Nottinghamshire Police to answer under the legislation.
However, I can confirm the following with regards to Q3:
a) The review was conducted by the head of the department plus 1 review officer.
b) The review was commenced on 24th January 2011 and completed on 11th March
2011.

 c) he review has not be costed as the Regional Review Unit fall under the collaboration
of East Midlands Special Operations Unit and as such we are commissioned to conduct
reviews across all the 5 forces in the East Midlands.
d) The ranks of those interviewed were as follows:
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1 x Assistant Chief Constable
2 x Detective Superintendent
2 x Detective Inspector
1 x Disclosure Officer
1 x Intelligence Officer

A further breakdown of the ranks listed above is considered to be exempt information
by virtue of the following:
Section 40 (2) - Personal Information
Section 40(2) is a class based absolute exemption and as such legislators have
identified that there would be harm in disclosure and there is no requirement to
evidence this or consider the public interest test. However, as Section 40(2) is engaged
and in order to make the exemption absolute we need to evidence that a data
protection principle would be breached by disclosure. In this case it would not be fair
to process confidential medical information which, with the information I have
released above, could lead to the identification of an individual, therefore the first
principle of the Data Protection Act would be breached.
You should consider this to be a refusal under section 17 of the Act for your request.
Leicestershire Police provides you the right to ask for a re-examination of your
request under its review procedure. Letters should be addressed to Information
Manager, Professional Standards Department at the above address. If you decide to
request such a review and having followed the Force’s full process you are still
dissatisfied, then you have the right to direct your comments to the Information
Commissioner who will give it consideration.
Yours sincerely

Steven Morris
Information Management
Leicestershire Police
: +44 (0)116 222 2222
: dataprotection@leicestershire.pnn.police.uk
: +44 (0)0116 2485217
Website: http://www.leics.police.uk
Leicestershire Police in complying with their statutory duty under sections 1 and 11
of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to release the enclosed information will not
breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. However, the rights of the
copyright owner of the enclosed information will continue to be protected by law.
Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of
the attached information should be addressed to The Information Manager,
Leicestershire Police Headquarters, St. Johns, Enderby, Leicester LE19 2BX.