Chief Constable Surrey Police

The complainant asked Surrey Police for a spreadsheet recording third‑party dash‑cam reports of alleged driving offences between January 2023 and February 2025. Surrey Police disclosed some information but withheld some details under section 40(2) of FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that Surrey Police was entitled to rely on section 40(2) of FOIA to withhold some of the requested information. However, Surrey Police breached section 11 of FOIA by not providing the information in the complainant’s preferred format and did not provide a valid explanation for why it was not reasonably practicable to do so. The Commissioner requires Surrey Police to reconsider the complainant’s preferred format under section 11 of FOIA and either provide the information in an editable spreadsheet format or explain why doing so is not reasonably practicable.