Chief Constable Commissioner for the Metropolis (Metropolitan Police Service)

The complainant has requested information from within Operation Countryman records held by the Metropolitan Police Service (the “MPS”). The MPS advised that to ascertain whether or not the requested information was held would exceed the cost limit at section 12(2) of FOIA. 

The Commissioner’s decision is that it was correct to rely on section 12(2) of FOIA and that it did not breach section 16 (1) (Advice and assistance). No steps are required.