Police Service of Northern Ireland

The complainant requested information that had been submitted to an inquest. The PSNI refused to release this information under sections 30(1), 30(2), 31(1), 38(1), 40(2) and 40(3) of the Act. The Commissioner finds that section 30(1) was correctly applied to all of the requested information and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in favour of disclosure. Therefore the Commissioner does not require any steps to be taken. The Commissioner also recorded a number of procedural breaches in relation to the PSNI’s handling of the request.