Restricted Recuperative Duties

1. How many officers were on restricted and recuperative duties as at (i) 31st December 2008 and (ii) 31st December 2009?
2. How many police officers on restricted and recuperative duties on (i) 31st December 2008 and (ii) 31^st December 2009 were working for less than their normal contracted hours?
3. How many of these officers are working for four hours or less per day for the cohort from (i) 31 December 2008 and (ii) 31 December 2009?

In accordance with section 1 (1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Question 1

• 31st December 2008 = 149
• 31st December 2009 = 157

Questions 2 and 3

To obtain this information we would be required to search various electronic and manual in-house systems and in collating this information each individual personnel record would need to be examined and tracked through those systems. It is estimated this would take in excess of 75 hours and 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.