States of Jersey and Honorary Police convictions (FOI)

​​​​​Request

​For the period from 2000 to 2023, please advise:-

A

How many serving Honorary police officers or ex-Honorary officers have been charged with and/or convicted of anysexual offences including against children?

B

How many of those Honorary police officers have received custodial sentences?

C

How many serving States of Jersey police officers or former States of Jersey police officers have been charged with or convicted of any sexual offences including against children?

D

How many of those States of Jersey police officers have received custodial sentences?

​Response

The States of Jersey Police systems are not configured in such a way that the information requested can be extracted other than by manually checking the record of each police officer and honorary officer that has served during the time parameters covered by the request.

It is estimated that to undertake this manual checking would take in excess of the 12.5 hours allowed under regulations and therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.