Police mystery cleared up
Last month I recorded my puzzlement at the fact that Avon and Somerset Police appeared to have destroyed their previous policy on the deletion and retention of records before they had finished drafting a new one.
I have now received an email from their Information Manager, in reply to my internal review, apologising for the previous responses to my FOI requests on this which he says 'have given an unintentional but nevertheless inaccurate impression of events'. And he has sent me a copy of the current record retention and weeding policy, which I was refused before on the grounds that it is still a draft although 'being adhered to'.
As for the file on the failed prosecution of Jeremy Thorpe for conspiracy to murder (which was my original interest), he says that it should have been destroyed many years ago and therefore it was appropriate to weed it at the earliest legal opportunity following the recent Information Tribunal case.
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