Auditing Trail Requests

Please may i ask if Police Forces have an Auditing System in place for any Audit Trail requests?

In accordance with the Act our response is provided below;

The Cheshire Constabulary neither confirms nor denies that it holds the information requested. To give a statement of the reasons why neither confirming nor denying is appropriate in this case would itself involve disclosure of exempt information, therefore under section 17 (4), no explanation can be given. To the extent that section 31(3) applies, the Cheshire Constabulary has determined that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exclusion of the duty to neither confirm nor deny outweighs the public interest in confirming whether or not the information is held.

In determining where the public interest lies we have considered the following factors:

In favour of disclosure are the general arguments in favour of promoting transparency, accountability and participation.

In favour of maintaining the exclusion to confirm or deny are arguments that to do so would disclose an important investigative ability or the lack of it. There would be no beneficial impact on the wider public. It is clear that the public interest would not be served in confirming or denying this ability.