Costs of individual policing

  • Reference Number: 3410
  • Date released: 20 October 2011

Request

Can you please provide me with a STATEMENT OF COSTS to date - to the nearest £200 if you are able and itemised where possible, accounting for our Constabulary's seemingly limitless expenditure of its finite public resource indulged in pursuit of securing a series of unreliable and low-level criminal convictions - reputedly in the public interest, against upstanding Hartford resident JAN KRAUSE (47) in the following URN criminalinvestigation/prosecution numbers:

1) URN: 07WZ1572909:- Comprising investigation of JAN KRAUSE by Northwich Neighbourhood Policing Unit (NPU) dating from circa October 2009; arrest dated 9 December 2009 and associated

detention, interview and transcription costs; lead-up to Magistrates' Court Trial dated 15-17 June 2010; and Crown Court Appeal dated 9-11 February 2011 ~ NB. litigation in the High Court remains extant.

2) URN: 07WZ0076010:- Comprising investigation of JAN KRAUSE by Northwich NPU dating from 9 December 2009; arrest dated 20 January 2010 and associated detention, interview and transcription costs; and lead-up to dismissal by the Chester Magistrates dated 25 November 2010 on a "no evidence basis" entered into Court by the Chief Crown Prosecutor for Mersey & Cheshire against the Chief Constable of Cheshire DAVID WHATTON Esq. ~ NB. litigation in the High Court remains pending wrt. an alleged criminal conspiracy by 5 named officers of Northwich NPU to attempt to pervert the course of justice in the same.

3) URN: 07WZ1337410:- Comprising investigation of JAN KRAUSE by Northwich NPU dating from late July 2010; incorporating 24 days of intrusive/directed police video surveillance dating from 28/9/10 to 22/10/10; inter-agency investigation; arrests dated 19/10/10 and 22/12/10 and associated detention, interview and transcription costs; and lead-up to Crown Court Trial dated 6-9 September 2011. NB. appeal to the Court of Appeal from 9/9/10 conviction and sentence in process.

4) HQ/CO/55/11:- Being a formal complaint addressed to the Professional Standards Department of Cheshire Constabulary by JAN KRAUSE in the public interest against 5 named officers of Northwich NPU alleging conspiracy to attempt to pervert the course of justice wrt. the thwarted prosecution in URN: 07WZ0076010.

5) Any other costs - for example corollary or extraneous costs, incurred by the Cheshire Constabulary and Northwich NPU in relation to the above-referred inter-linked 'criminal' investigations of JAN KRAUSE (47) of Hartford.

6) And all costs including correspondence costs inculcated at presumed enhanced remuneration rate by the office of our Western Area Commander Chief Superintendent CRAIG GUILDFORD, Cheshire

Constabulary, in his protracted and alleged self-serving defence of the fully evidenced serious criminal misdemeanours - as alleged in complaint ref HQ/CO/55/11, of five named of his junior officers falling under the immediate direction and control of Inspector PAUL LOUGHLIN, Northwich NPU.

7) For context of this FoI request, please refer to Northwich Guardian news-website:  Northwich Guardian Article showing the 14/9/11 public proclamations of Chief Supt CRAIG GUILDFORD, which might best have remained sub-judice in disputed 'criminal' matter currently on appeal to the Court of Appeal, RCJ,London.

 

Response

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

In respect of the whole of your request, there is no information held. Cheshire Constabulary does not calculate and record the costs of individual policing actions.

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