Police sector publication scheme monitoring: follow-up report 

In March the ICO published a second publication monitoring report looking at police forces and police authorities. A brief follow-up report has now been produced, which looks at developments since the publication of the main report.

The follow-up report looks at what has happened with those authorities who were found not to be operating an approved publication scheme. The report also looks at developments at the remaining authorities who, whilst operating an approved scheme, could have improved what they were doing.

View the follow-up report

ICO launches new policy for freedom of information regulatory action 

Failure to deal with requests within the statutory time for compliance has been identified as a key target for intervention and the new policy sets out the regulatory tools we have to deal with this.

The new policy reinforces the ICO’s commitment to tackling poor performance within public authorities, and describes the action we will take to tackle serious and repetitive breaches of the Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations.

Read more and download the new policy

Annual track 2010  

We monitor awareness and understanding of the Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act on an annual basis.

We are currently conducting our Annual Track 2010 and have commissioned SMSR Ltd to undertake the study on our behalf. The information provided by respondents will be treated as private and confidential, with individual responses remaining anonymous.

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