Headquarters Chief Francis Habgood QPM Oxford Road Kidlington Oxfordshire OX5 2NX

Mr P Salmon

Telephone: 101 Direct dial: 01865 846329 Email: [email protected]

Our ref: HQ/PA/002578/16

26 September 2016

Dear Mr Salmon,

I write in response to the above-referenced Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted on 30 August 2016. Thames Valley Police has now considered this request, which for clarity, has been repeated below:

Request Response

I would like to request under the Freedom Thames Valley Police have engaged the of Information Act, a list of national policing following exemption in relation to your roles carried out by the following police request: officers who held the rank of Assistant Chief Constable or above for Thames Section 21: Information Reasonably Valley Police, and the dates for which they Accessible by Other Means were held. Please see below for further explanation.

(a) Charles Pollard In relation to previous Chief (b) Peter Neyroud there is no information held. You may wish (c) Sara Thornton to contact the National Police Chiefs (d) Francis Hapgood Council (NPCC) to see whether they hold (e) Ian Blair this information.

Section 21: Information Reasonably Accessible By Other Means Section 21 is an absolute class based exemption and does not require a public interest test.

Section 21 has been engaged as the national policing roles of our current Chief Constable can be found via the below link: http://www.npcc.police.uk/Publication/NPCC%20FOI/Information%20Management /089%2015%20NPCC%20National%20Policing%20Leads%20att%2001%20of%2 001.pdf

www.thamesvalley.police.uk

Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Francis Habgood QPM

Complaint Rights If you are dissatisfied with the handling procedures or the decision made by Thames Valley Police, you can lodge a complaint with the force to have the decision reviewed within two months of the date of this response. Complaints should be made in writing to the FOI inbox; [email protected].

If, after lodging a complaint with Thames Valley Police, you are still unhappy with the outcome, you may make application to the Information Commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

If you require any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact this office.

Yours sincerely

Sierra Reid Public Access Officer Joint Information Management Unit