Private Organisations Funding PCSO's

Reference number: 
20100186
Request date: 
03/2010
Response date: 
22/03/2010 (All day)
Request details: 

1.       How many private organisations have funded the costs of PCSOs and or other police staff within your force – in each of the last three financial years (07/08, 08/09 and April 09 to date)?

2.       How many PCSOs and or other police staff are currently contracted out to work for private organisations as part of this funding arrangement?

3.       Please list the organisations which have funded your PCSOs and or other police staff over these 3 years (please breakdown by year)?

4.       How much money have you received from this funding in each of the 3 years?

5.       Please provide a breakdown of how much you have been paid per organisation?

6.       How many PCSOs and or other police staff were recalled from working for these private organisations?

7.       How many applications to fund PCSOs and or other police staff were approved in each of the last three years? How many were rejected

Exemptions Applied: 

Section 21 - Information is reasonably accessible by other means.

SYP response: 

Your request for information has now been considered and I am not able to supply the information you have requested. 

Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires South Yorkshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which:   

  1. states that fact,
  2. specifies the exemption in question and
  3. states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies. 

By virtue of Section 2(3) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2000 the exemption applicable to the information is “absolute” in that it falls under section 21. This states ‘Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information’. 

In accordance with my responsibility under S16 of the Act  would direct you to the following link to the South Yorkshire Police website: - 

http://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/foi/disclosurelog/20100068