FOI 407/25
REQUEST
This is a request about officers and staff who have second jobs or business interests outside of the police.
- How many serving police officers and staff members have registered second jobs or business interests outside their job at the force?
- If possible, the data should be broken down individually with the officer’s rank and the specific nature of the job / business interest.
RESPONSE
We consulted with our Professional Standards Department who have provided the below response to your request.
Please see attached document entitled ‘Response data 407_25’ which answers your request.
Please note the number of business interests will be higher than the number of officers ranks this is due to some individuals having more than one business interest.
Please also note due to some of the low figures of officer ranks within the data we are not obliged to break this data down individually; the following exemption applies:
Section 40(2) - Personal Information
Section 40(2) is an absolute class-based exemption and therefore the authority is not required to consider the public interest in disclosure.
The Data Protection Act covers processing of personal data about a living individual. Personal data means data which relate to a living individual who can be identified-
- from those data, or
- from those data and other information which is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller or any other person in respect of the individual.
Information will “relate to” a person if it is about them, linked to them, has some biographical significance for them, is used to inform decisions affecting them, has them as its main focus or impacts on them in any way.
If we disclosed these details, this would provide significant detail which could identify an individual and would breach the first principle of the Data Protection Act 2018.
In accordance with the Act, this letter represents a refusal notice for this part of your request.