FOI 908-2024 / Oct 2024 / Police CPI Ltd
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 908-2024
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 15th October 2024 as follows:
Q1. Have you or your authority ever instructed your officers, through word of mouth or written instruction, to only recommend and/or make the public aware of Police CPI Ltd (trading as Secured by Design) certified crime prevention products? Y or N? If yes, please supply copies of the instructions.
Q2. Have you or your authority ever given permission to Police CPI Ltd for the names of the latter’s employees, purporting to be serving Designing Out Crime Officers, to be listed on your website, and/or under your authority’s name on their website? Y or N?
Q3. In the past 2 years, have you or your authority or any organisation you are aware of made any assessment of Police CPI Ltd.’s capabilities with regard to the technical expertise necessary, and their qualifications to assess and certify all crime prevention products to be brought to the attention of the public and victims by your officers. Y or N? If yes, please provide copies of these assessments
Q4. Have you, the Chief Constable, responsible for the expenditure of taxpayers’ money to purchase services from Police CPI Ltd. ever sat on the board of that private company while employed as a police officer. Y or N?
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below. When reviewing the responses please note that where all say ‘no’, this equates to ‘No Information Held’. This is because Section 84 of the Freedom of Information Act relates to recorded information held by a public authority, and it does not extend to providing explanations unless the answers are already held in a recorded form:
"Information is defined in section 84 of the Act as 'information recorded in any form'. The Act therefore only extends to requests for recorded information. It does not require public authorities to answer questions generally; only if they already hold the answers in recorded form. The Act does not extend to requests.”
Q1 response: No (No Information held)
Q2 response: No (No Information held)
Q3 response: No (No Information held)
Q4 response: No (No Information held)
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
Your attention is drawn to the below which details your right of complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write or email the Freedom of Information Unit quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB