FOI Police Treatment Centre Donations (0360-2022/23)
Request
Q1. The number of officers that on the 31st July 2022 donate to the Police Treatment Centres
If possible could these be split between
PCSO’s
CSI’s
Warranted police officers
Detention / Custody officer
Other
Q2. The number of officers that on the 31st July 2022 donate to The Police Children’s Charity (formerly St Georges Police Children Trust)
Q3. Your force strength at the 31st July 2022
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. The number of officers that on the 31st July 2022 donate to the Police Treatment Centres
If possible could these be split between
PCSO’s
CSI’s
Warranted police officers
Detention / Custody officer
Other
(I note you have indicated you will be satisfied with an overall count)
As at 31st July 2022, 702 North Yorkshire Police Officers donate to the Police Treatment Centres via subscriptions taken through payroll.
Q2. The number of officers that on the 31st July 2022 donate to The Police Children’s Charity (formerly St Georges Police Children Trust)
As at 31st July 2022, 643 North Yorkshire Police Officers donate to the Police Children’s Charity via subscriptions taken through payroll.
Q3. Your force strength at the 31st July 2022
The number of police officers employed by North Yorkshire Police is published within the Police Workforce, England and Wales data tables. As this information is freely available on the internet I am exempting providing a further response to this part of your request citing S21 of the Freedom Of Information Act – Information Reasonably Accessible to the Applicant by Other Means. Please see the detailed exemption explanation below.
Pursuant to Section 17(1) of the Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice in response to Q3 only of your request.
Exemption Explanations
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. Please see the relevant exemption headers below for further information.
Section 21 – Information Reasonably Accessible to the Applicant by Other Means
This exemption applies as the requested information has been deemed already reasonably accessible by other means. Please refer to the following for relevant information;
Section 21(1) is an absolute class-based exemption. This means that if the requested information is held by the public authority, and it is reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means, it is not subject to the public interest test.
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.