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Our Ref: IM-FOI-2020-0988 Date: 1 July 2020

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002

I refer to your recent request for information which has been handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

For ease of reference, your request is replicated below together with the response.

 How much money did Police Scotland spend on deploying resources to 30 McDonald's restaurants across Scotland on their first day of reopening on Tuesday, June 2?  The addresses of the branches are as follows:  Bedford Road, Kittybrewster Retail Park, Aberdeen Inverurie Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen Bradford Road, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen Buchan Way Ring Road Industrial Estate, Peterhead Muirend Road, Portlethen, Aberdeen Halfpenny Burn, Forfar Ethiebeaton Park, Arbroath Road, Monifieth, Dundee Westway, Arbroath 6 Builyeon Road, South Queensferry Newbridge Industrial Estate, Newbridge, Edinburgh 1200 Maryhill Road, Maryhill, Glasgow 1325 Sprinburn Road, Springburn, Glasgow 489 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow 45 Finnieston Street, The Clydeway Centre & Skypark, Glasgow West End Retail Park, Crow Road, Partick, Glasgow The Lochs Shopping Centre, 800 Westerhouse Road, Shandwick Street, Easterhouse, Glasgow Lochside Road, Dumfries Flemington Road, Glenrothes Chapel Park Fife Central Retail Park 17, Kirkcaldy Fife Leisure Park, Halbeath, Dunfermline Bankhead Park, Glenrothes Glasgow North Retail Park, Monument Drive, Glasgow Linkwood Place, Aberdeen Road, Elgin Unit 3 Forres Road, Auldearn, Nairn Riverway Retail park, Riverway, Irvine Kilwinning Road, Hawkhill Retail Park, Stevenson 91 Dunkeld Road, Perth Broxden Avenue, Perth Whitburn Road, Bathgate Inshes Retail park, Inches Roundabout, Sir Walter Scott Drive, Inverness

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Your request for information has now been considered and I can confirm that that whilst officers did attend at the locations provided Police Scotland does not hold the information requested by you in relation to the staffing hours devoted to these incidents. In terms of Section 17(1) of the Act, this letter represents a formal notice that information is not held.

By way of explanation, Police Scotland does not record the officer hours devoted to any specific operation or investigation or incident. The nature of policing means that officers and staff are deployed to wherever their services are most required.

The officers and staff who worked on a particular incident/operation are drawn from different areas of the Service, based on their skillsets. The Division to which individual officers or staff belong meet the cost of their core time and so there is no requirement to maintain a record of the cost of any particular duty carried out. There will be officers who were involved in these incidents as part of their routine daily duties. Officers who are involved in particular incidents can be redeployed to other duties at any time. As such detailed records are not held in relation to the number of officers or staff deployed.

Should you require any further assistance please contact Information Management - Edinburgh on 0131 311 3901 quoting the reference number given.

If you are dissatisfied with the way in which Police Scotland has dealt with your request, you are entitled, in the first instance, to request a review of our actions and decisions.

Your request must specify the matter which gives rise to your dissatisfaction and it must be submitted within 40 working days of receiving this response - either by email to [email protected] or by post to Information Management (Disclosure), Police Scotland, Clyde Gateway, 2 French Street, Dalmarnock, G40 4EH.

If you remain dissatisfied following the outcome of that review, you are thereafter entitled to apply to the Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner within six months for a decision. You can apply online, by email to [email protected] or by post to Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DS.

Should you wish to appeal against the Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner's decision, there is an appeal to the Court of Session on a point of law only.

As part of our commitment to demonstrate openness and transparency in respect of the information we hold, an anonymised version of this response will be posted to the Police Scotland Freedom of Information Disclosure Log in seven days' time.

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