Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service

The complainant asked for information about the public authority’s investigation into an amateur video showing an individual, apparently dressed in Metropolitan Police-issue body armour, inviting two people to shoot at him with a ball bearing gun. The public authority initially declined to provide the information, citing the exemptions at section 30 and section 40. During the course of the investigation it provided sufficient information to cause the complainant to withdraw his complaint into the application of the exemptions. The Commissioner found breaches of sections 1(1)(b), 10(1) and 17(1) in respect of the public authority’s delayed response.