FOI 31-24: Information relating to Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland as a Corporation Sole

Information Standards Freedom of Information Response

 Our Ref: FOI 31-24 

21 June 2024

Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) has processed your request dated 3 June 2024 under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). In your request, you asked:

“1. Please ‘confirm or deny’[4] that information, records including, but not limited to legislation, are held that confirms / provides the material evidence that the specific public office, CHIEF-CONSTABLE of the POLICE-SERVICE-OF-NORTHERN-IRELAND, is a CORPORATION-SOLE.

2.  Please provide all information, records including, but not limited to legislation, that that incorporates / creates and or provides the material evidence for the public office, CHIEF-CONSTABLE of the POLICE-SERVICE-OF-NORTHERN-IRELAND, as a CORPORATION-SOLE.

3. [P]lease provide all information, records held including, but not limited to legislation, that incorporated / created and or provides the material evidence for the public office, CHIEF-CONSTABLE of the ROYAL-ULSTER-CONSTABULARY, as a CORPORATION-SOLE.”

Our response

The Assembly Commission does not hold this information.

Further information

The information that you require may be held by the Police Service for Northern Ireland (PSNI). You can send the PSNI this request by contacting foi@psni.police.uk .

You have the right to request an internal review of this decision by the Assembly Commission.  If you wish to request such a review, please write to me at the above address.  If, after that review, you are dissatisfied with the way in which the Assembly Commission has handled your request for information, you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Your request for information and our response may be published in the disclosure log maintained by the Assembly Commission under a publication scheme agreed with the ICO. The request and our response will be anonymised. 

Yours sincerely

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