FOI 0617-2024/25- CPI Ltd
Request:
Q1. Have you or your authority ever instructed your officers, through word of mouth or written instruction, to only recommend and/or make the public aware of Police CPI Ltd (trading as Secured by Design) certified crime prevention products? Y or N? If yes, please supply copies of the instructions.
Q2. Have you or your authority ever given permission to Police CPI Ltd for the names of the latter’s employees, purporting to be serving Designing Out Crime Officers, to be listed on your website, and/or under your authority’s name on their website? Y or N?
Q3. In the past 2 years, have you or your authority or any organisation you are aware of made any assessment of Police CPI Ltd.’s capabilities with regard to the technical expertise necessary, and their qualifications to assess and certify all crime prevention products to be brought to the attention of the public and victims by your officers. Y or N? If yes, please provide copies of these assessments.
Q4. Have you, the Chief Constable, responsible for the expenditure of taxpayers’ money to purchase services from Police CPI Ltd. ever sat on the board of that private company while employed as a police officer. Y or N?
Response:
Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information
To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.
Decision
I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.
Q1. No
Q2. No
Q3. No
Q4. No, the information you have requested is published online under the following links:
POLICE CRIME PREVENTION INITIATIVES LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK
I have therefore decided to exempt providing you with a response to question 4 pursuant to Section 21 Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). Please see the exemption explanation below.
*Please note, no equates to No Information Held. This is because s84 of FOIA relates to recorded information held by a public authority and that it does not extend to providing explanations unless the answers are already held in a recorded form.
Exemption Explanation
Section 17 of the Act requires North Yorkshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.
Section 21 – Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means
Section 21 is an absolute class based exemption and I am not required to consider the harm or public interest when applying this exemption.
Pursuant to Section 17(1) of the Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice in response to your request.
Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.