Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service

The complainant has requested confirmation as to whether a number of individuals are employed by the Metropolitan Police Service (the “MPS”) and whether it knew the location of one individual in particular. The Commissioner’s decision is that the MPS was entitled to rely on section 40(5B) (personal information) of FOIA when refusing to confirm or deny holding the requested information. To the extent that any of the data, if held, would relate to the requester, the MPS was entitled to rely on section 40(5A) to refuse to confirm or deny holding this potential element of the requested information. The Commissioner does not require further steps to be taken.