Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis (Metropolitan Police Service)
- Date 14 July 2025
- Sector Police and criminal justice
- Decision(s) FOI 1: Upheld, FOI 10: Upheld
The complainant has requested information connected to a suicide from the Metropolitan Police Service (the “MPS”). The MPS did not respond to the requests under FOIA.
The Commissioner’s decision is that the correspondence of 2 August 2024 does not contain any valid requests for the purposes of FOIA so did not require a response under FOIA. However, the correspondence of 1 August 2024 does contain valid requests. In failing to respond to these, the MPS has breached sections 1 and 10 of FOIA. The Commissioner requires the MPS to either disclose the information requested on 1 August 2024 or issue a valid refusal notice as set out in section 17 of the FOIA.