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Freedom of Information
Stubborn or Persistent? You Decide.
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes In August year I wrote a post relating to my submission of an an FOIA request to the Metropolitan Police concerning Murders and Ethnicity in…
Government Transparency (or Lockdown Boredom)
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes I admit it, Lockdown has got to me. I am bored. I’m even bored enough to find out how various Government Departments perform, faced with…
College of Policing – A Beacon of Transparency
Read Whole PostReading Time: 4 minutes It may be a surprise to some of you but I am not a huge fan of the Direct Entry Scheme for Inspectors and Superintendents…
Who Co-Ordinates The Co-Ordinators?
Read Whole PostReading Time: 3 minutes Mustn’t swear, honestly, but yesterday provided me with a true WTF moment. Following the recent visit of that nice Mr Trump to the UK, it…
Tory PCC Expenses & #FOI Raise Their Ugly Heads Again
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes Has anybody here seen Julia Mulligan since the PCC Elections? She seems to have gone walkabout, or at least her office has in FOIWorld. 31st…
Purdah vs FOIA
Read Whole PostReading Time: < 1 minute Yes, that old chestnut. Personally, I confess, I did not know which should or would apply in the run-up to an election, so I phoned…
Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Read Whole PostReading Time: < 1 minute Nope, nothing to do with Messrs Simon and Garfunkel, but a return to the Dark Ages brought about solely by the media, quelle surprise. The…
Something Smells Rotten In Mrs May’s Empire
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes At the back end of last year you will no doubt recall I had cause to think that Tom Winsor had dsisappeared, that post is…
Tom Winsor Has Completely Disappeared
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes Well, that’s not strictly true, but he has been expunged from the record. After Friday’s blog and the shitstorm it invoked about the apparent lack…
Freedom of Information – I Have Met My Match
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes I recently contacted Northamptonshire Police with a Freedom of Information Request, asking how many Police Stations had closed in the last 5 years, and how…
