19. LETTER
TO
RT
HON
JACQUI
SMITH
MP FROM
THE
COMMISSIONER,
8 JUNE
2009
This letter is to ask you for your agreement to the
police providing me with summarised information about your London
and Redditch homes on the basis of police records and to let you
have a copy of the evidence I sought and received from one of
your neighbours.
As you will know from my letter to you of 22 April,
I decided that it was necessary for me to ask the police for information
they might hold which would help identify your overnight stays
in London and in Redditch. I attach a copy of my letter to the
Commissioner of Police of 22 April; a copy of the Assistant Commissioner's
reply which I received on 30 April; my letter to the Assistant
Commissioner of 7 May; and her response which I received on 4
June.
As you will see, the Metropolitan Police Service
have concluded that data supplied in a summarised format would
not compromise their current position on the security of protected
persons. They suggest that it is for me to decide whether to seek
your express content for the Metropolitan Police Service to release
the data which I have requested—which, as you know, would
be in a summarised format.
For the reasons set out in my letter of 22 April
to the Commissioner, I consider that it would be helpful to my
inquiry if I did have the information I had sought from the Metropolitan
Police Service, and, through them, from the West Mercia Constabulary.
I would therefore ask that you consider giving me your express
consent to the Metropolitan Police Service and the West Mercia
Constabulary releasing to me the information they hold relating
to your overnight stays in London and Redditch which I have sought.
If you agree to the police releasing such information to assist
me with this inquiry, it would be very helpful if you could write
to me giving your consent to the Metropolitan Police Service and
the West Mercia Constabulary releasing to me for the purpose of
my inquiry data in a summarised format held by the Metropolitan
Police Service and the West Mercia Constabulary in relation to
your overnight stays in London and Redditch between 28 June 2007,
when you became Home Secretary, and 31 March 2009.
When I wrote to you on 21 May I noted that I was
awaiting a response from the neighbour whom your sister suggested
I ask about your overnight stays in London. I attach a copy of
that neighbour's letter of 30 May.
I look forward to hearing from you as soon as convenient
about the police data issue.
8 June 2009
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