The complainant has requested information about a police operation carried out on taxi and private hire drivers from the Metropolitan Police Service (the ‘MPS’). To date he has not received a substantive response. The Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority has failed to provide a response to the request within the statutory time frame of 20 working days. He requires it to comply with the request or issue a valid refusal notice as set out in section 17 of the FOIA. The MPS must take these steps within 35 calendar days of the date of this decision notice. Failure to comply may result in the Commissioner making written certification of this fact to the High Court pursuant to section 54 of the Act and may be dealt with as a contempt of court.
FOI 10: Upheld
Citations:
[2015] UKICO FS50583303
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Information
Updated: 07 September 2022; Ref: scu.555462