- Reference Number: 1796
- Date released: 16 April 2009
Request
Please disclose the information below under the FOI Act for
each of the following years; 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
For each year please provide a breakdown of the number of strip
searches carried out by the force.
If you are unable to provide information for the past 5 years
due to cost please disclose the information for 2008 followed by
each previous year until the cost limit is reached.
Response
In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is
provided below;
We are unable to provide the information you have requested. The
information would be held within individual custody records and
could only be retrieved by a manual examination of each record.
This it is estimated would exceed the appropriate limit. The
appropriate limit is defined in the Data Protection and Freedom of
Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004, which is
covered by statutory Instrument Number 3244 of 2004.
Furthermore, Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
allows a public authority to refuse to respond to a request for
information where the cost of compliance would exceed the
appropriate limit as defined by the above mentioned
regulations.
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