Convictions of police officers since March 2018 (FOI)Convictions of police officers since March 2018 (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
26 January 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
For the period 3 March 2018 to 10 January 2024, please advise:
A
The number of police officers and Police Community Support officers (PCSO) in the States of Jersey Police convicted of a crime.
B
For each officer or PCSO listed in the answer to question A, the type of offence (assault, rape and so forth), the date of the offence and the date of conviction.
C
The name, date of birth, gender and rank of each convicted officer and PCSO and their status with the States of Jersey Police at the date of offence and now.
For the period 3 March 2021 to 10 January 2024, please advise:
D
The number of police officers and PCSOs charged with a criminal offence where the case is yet to conclude.
E
For each officer and PCSO listed in the answer to question D, the type of offence that they are charged with (assault, rape and so forth) and the date of the alleged offence.
F
The name, age, gender and rank of each officer and PCSO charged with an offence and their status with the States of Jersey Police both now and when the alleged offence occurred.
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 individual that has served as a police officer at any time in the force during the time parameters covered by the request.
It is estimated that to undertake this manual checking of around 300 individuals (each check taking approximately 5 minutes) would take in excess of the 12.5 hours allowed by regulation and Article16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies..
To ensure the highest level of integrity and maintain public trust, States of Jersey Police follow the College of Policing’s Approved Professional Practice on Vetting which is available to view at:
APP on Vetting.pdf (college.police.uk)
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.