FOI 945-2024 / Oct 2024 / Head of Learning
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 945-2024
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 29th October 2024 as follows:
I would be very grateful if you could provide me with the name of the Head of Learning and Development for Warwickshire Police with their email address.
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.
Response: The Head of Learning and Development for Warwickshire Police is Berni Gaughan.
With regard to the personal email address, your request for information has been considered and I am not obliged to supply the information you have requested.
Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires Warwickshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant 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.
The exemption applicable to the requested information is:
Section 40(2) Personal information
Section 40(2) is an absolute class-based exemption, which does not require evidence of the harm disclosure would cause and does not require consideration of a public interest test.
Please be advised that any information released as a result of a Freedom of Information request, in effect, is being released into the public domain. Therefore, it could subsequently be published or would have to be made available to any member of the public if it were requested.
Any information that relates to an individual, or from which an individual could be identified, constitutes personal data and to release information that constitutes personal data into the public domain contravenes the Data Protection Act 2018. The information that you have requested relates to personal data and/or personal data of a third party/parties and therefore it is exempt from disclosure, the exemption that applies to this type of information is Section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
In accordance with the Act, this letter represents a Refusal Notice for this element of your request.
Berni Gaughan can be contacted via the online submission form via ‘Contact Us’, please find the link set out below:
Contact us | Warwickshire Police,
or via the 101 non-emergency number.
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