Metropolitan Police Service

The complainant has requested information about the use of paper boiler suits in custody suites from the Metropolitan Police Service (the “MPS”). The MPS provided some information but advised that further information is not held. During the Commissioner’s investigation, some further information was identified as suitable for disclosure. In respect of that information the MPS is now required to either disclose it, or issue a valid refusal notice under section 17 of the FOIA explaining why it cannot be disclosed. In respect of any further information, the Commissioner’s decision is that, on the civil standard of the balance of probabilities, the requested information is not held.