Communications Media Staff

Could you please let me have the names and email addresses of your communications/media staff.

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

Within the Cheshire Constabulary Corporate Communications is an internal communications department . The staff do not have a public facing role and they have no expectations that there names etc. would be made publically available.

With the exception of the head of the department, Mrs Brenda Cowling, the details of all other staff members are refused as the information is exempt by virtue of Section 40 (2) Personal Data.

Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires the Cheshire Constabulary, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you 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.

Section 40(2) any information to which a request for information relates is also exempt information if

(a) it constitutes personal data which does not fall within subsection (1), and

(b) either the first or the second condition below is satisfied

(3) The first condition is:-

(a) in a case where the information falls within any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition of "data" in section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998, that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act would contravene:-

(i) any of the data protection principles.

In this case disclosure would breach principles 1 & 2 of the Data Protection Act 1998 and would be unlawful. Section 40 (2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is therefore absolute.

Contact details are already accessible to you by other means and is therefore exempt information in accordance with section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please see the following link: Contact Us Pages