WEST MERCIA PCC: DISCLOSURE LOG
RESPONSE TO REQUEST
Reference: 2022 – 288 / WE5799
Date of response: 5th May 2022
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST
Request
Hopton Wafers
- Please provide a total number of accidents recorded in a year by yourselves from:
1.1 insurance companies, over the past 6 years from 2017-18 to 2021-22
1.2 West Mercia Police, over the past 6 years from 2017-18 to 2021-22
1.3 Public, over the past 6 years from 2017-18 to 2021-22 - Reports covering A4117 at Hopton Wafers, this could be a general committee report,
Police Highway’s reports, over the past 6 years from 2017-18 to 2021-22. - Over the past 6 years from 2017-18 to 2021-22, please provide a total number per year
of fatalities (loss of life) caused by motor vehicles along the A4117 at Hopton Wafers:
A4117 Ludlow Road (from Sainsburys at Cleobury Mortimer)
- Over the past 6 years from 2017-18 to 2021-22, please provide a total number per year
of fatalities (loss of life) caused by motor vehicles along the A4117, in relation to:
4.1 Cattle
4.2 Sheep
4.3 Humans - Over the past 6 years from 2017-18 to 2021-22, please provide the total number of accidents recorded per year to humans, this should include Hopton Wafers. 5.1 Report / recommendations to Shropshire Council of a safety issue to a particular
part of the road and any suggestions put to Shropshire Council for example
lights, humps etc. that followed the accident.
Response
Please see the below response to your request.
Your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is refused. It is exempt from
disclosure under FOIA Section 12 (cost limit). This is due to the time that would be
required to manually scrutinise a very large number of OPCC case files and documents to
establish whether information is held in the first place. In accordance with s17(5) of the
FOIA, this acts as a Refusal Notice.
Section 16 of the FOIA requires us to provide assistance and advice to you regarding your
requests. I would advise that your requests are too broad (in some respects), in that they
are seeking information that is not typically categorised or catalogued by the OPCC. This
means that wide-ranging manual searches would be required across our organisation to
ascertain whether we hold various bits of information you are requesting. The need for
these searches push your requests over the reasonable time limits for fulfilment, as set
within the FOIA. I would advise you to refine the wording of your requests, and/ or narrow
them in scope. This should help ensure that the time limits associated with FOIs are not
triggered by your requests.
I would also advise that the vast majority of the information you are seeking is not
necessarily held by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner. I would suggest
your request might be more appropriately directed towards West Mercia Police as it is a
separate organisation to the OPCC.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write to the
Information Compliance Unit; Information Compliance Unit, PO Box 55, Worcester, WR3
8SP. Email: [email protected]
Yours sincerely,
FOI Officer
West Mercia PCC
Complaints
If you think that the Police and Crime Commissioner has failed to supply information in accordance with the publication scheme, then you should write in the first instance, to the:
Chief Executive, OPCC – West Mercia, Hindlip Hall, Worcester. WR3 8SP
The PCC will aim to deal with your complaint within 10 working days. If you are dissatisfied with the response you can ask for the matter to be internally reviewed. Internal reviews will be completed promptly and a response given to you within 20 working days of your further request.
If, after the internal review, you remain dissatisfied, then you can complain to the Information Commissioner (Office of the Information Commissioner), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF).
