Staffordshire Police

The complainant requested information relating to a document known as the ‘Scheme of Delegation’. Staffordshire Police provided the requested Uniform Resource Locator or ‘URL’ and explained where the document could be located on its website; it denied holding a copy of the Scheme of Delegation document dating from January 2012. At internal review, the complainant raised concerns about the lack of any signature on the Scheme of Delegation; Staffordshire Police denied holding a signed copy of this document. The Commissioner’s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, Staffordshire Police did not hold a Scheme of Delegation document dating from January 2012, nor did it hold a signed version of the document which is available. It therefore complied with the duty set out at section 1(1) (general right of access) of FOIA. The Commissioner requires no steps to be taken as a result of this decision.