FOI Fatal Incident East Parade 28/11/2022 (0749-2022/23)

Request

FOI request regarding a fatal incident this week Monday 28/11/22 involving the young relative of a landlord of a property on East Parade. 

Q1. Were met officers called in? 

Q2. What information can be released.

Q3. Why was information not released earlier?

Local residents need to know for their own security.

 

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. North Yorkshire Police released the following statement regarding the incident in question:

On the evening of Thursday 24 November, police were called by the ambulance service to the death of a man in his 30s at a property in East Parade in Harrogate.

At the time of reporting, his death was treated as unexplained, therefore a cordon was put in place to protect the scene while officers carried out a full examination of the property where the death occurred.

Following a post mortem examination, officers do not believe that there are any suspicious circumstances that led to the man’s death.

A report will be prepared for the Coroner to inform a future inquest into the man’s death.

Q3. This part of your request is not a valid under Section 8(1)(a), of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act). Requests under the Act are for recorded information, this requests is asking for an explanation, rather than for recorded information held by North Yorkshire Police.

However to assist, information is not always released into the public domain, unless there is a policing purpose to do so and each incident is reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

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.