Category: Merseyside Police

Merseyside Police redact dog names from invoices claiming the names are “personal information”

Merseyside Police redact dog names from invoices claiming the names are “personal information”

Merseyside Police redact dog names from invoices claiming the names are “personal information”

                                           

By John Brace (Editor) and Leonora Brace (Co-Editor)

First publication date: 12th January 2021, 15:57 (GMT)

In November 2012, when police and crime commissioners were introduced, a new requirement was placed on certain police forces in England to publish information on payments over £500 (including the recipients of such payments).
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Merseyside Police paid £2,900 annual data registration fee to ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) late for 2nd year running and only after being threatened again with a £4,350 Monetary Penalty Notice

Merseyside Police paid £2,900 annual data registration fee to ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) late for 2nd year running and only after being threatened again with a £4,350 Monetary Penalty Notice

Merseyside Police paid £2,900 annual data registration fee to ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) late for 2nd year running and only after being threatened again with a £4,350 Monetary Penalty Notice

                                     

Merseyide Police paid their data registration fee to ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) late after being threatened with a fine
Merseyide Police paid their data registration fee to ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) late after being threatened with a fine

By John Brace (Editor) and Leonora Brace (Co-Editor)

First publication date: 4th January 2021, 11:50 (GMT)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who guards the guardians?)

As emails published below show, Merseyside Police failed to pay their annual data protection registration fee of £2,900 to ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) in 2019 and their registration as a data controller lapsed on 8th September 2019. Although Merseyside Police did pay the £2,900 fee on 26th September 2019, this was only after ICO emailed Merseyside Police stating that ICO could issue a £4,350 Monetary Penalty Notice (on top of the £2,900 data protection fee) if the £2,900 payment was not made within 14 days of the reminder email.
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What are the new restrictions on what you can’t do in Wirral, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Liverpool and Halton from the 14th October 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic?

What are the new restrictions on what you can’t do in Wirral, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Liverpool and Halton from the 14th October 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic?

What are the new restrictions on what you can’t do in Wirral, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Liverpool and Halton from the 14th October 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic?

                                     

A protest outside Wallasey Town Hall in 2016 - protests of this size whilst the regulations are in force will only be allowed if a risk assessment has been carried out and all reasonable measures have been taken
A protest outside Wallasey Town Hall in 2016 – protests of this size whilst these regulations are in force will only be allowed if a risk assessment has been carried out and all reasonable measures have been taken

By John Brace (Editor)
First publication date: 13th October 2020, 12:46 (BST).

Tomorrow (Wednesday 14th October 2020) further public health restrictions come into force in Wirral, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Liverpool and Halton. The regulations are called the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Very High) (England) Regulations 2020 and are 27 pages long with a 13 page Explanatory Memorandum.
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Merseyside Police and Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside deem it “unreasonable” to comply with their legal requirements to provide information during the 30 day public inspection period

Merseyside Police and Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside deem it “unreasonable” to comply with their legal requirements to provide information during the 30 day public inspection period

Merseyside Police and Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside deem it “unreasonable” to comply with their legal requirements to provide information during the 30 day public inspection period

                             

Jane Kennedy (left), the current Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside and Labour Party candidate in the 2016 elections for a Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside at a public meeting of the Police and Fire Collaboration Committee (2015)
Jane Kennedy (left), the current Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside and Labour Party candidate in the 2016 elections for a Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside at a public meeting of the Police and Fire Collaboration Committee (2015)

By John Brace (Editor)

First publication date: 13th August 2020, 19:10 (BST).

Dear Mr Keith Dickinson and Mr John Riley, 

Unfortunately I have only just today read your letter dated 6th August 2020. 
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How much did the Labour general election campaign in 2019 in Wirral South spend?

How much did the Labour general election campaign in 2019 in Wirral South spend?

How much did the Labour general election campaign in 2019 in Wirral South spend?

                                

I believe this piece falls into the category of the public right to know. These are the published results of an journalistic investigation graded and edited by myself as editor at Chase Level 3 (reasonable grounds to investigate).
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