Read Between The Lines!

As was explained in an earlier entry on this blog, requests were made to West Yorkshire Police under the Freedom Of Information Act pertaining to raids that took place in Leeds on the day White alleges he was raided.  This was one of hundreds of applications made relating to Nationalist matters yet strangely was not acknowledged.  So the author complained and was issued with a notice that they needed more time to collate the data and (this is the crucial part) to ascertain whether disclosing this information may be detrimental to public interest.  That time extension expired on the 20th February and surprise, STILL no response!  This has NEVER, EVER happened previously with approximately 150 applications. There has also NEVER been any mention on previous applications of 'public interest' either - how very strange.

So let's surmise - out of roughly 150 prior applications we have NEVER had a request conveniently ignored until we complained and out of roughly 150 applications we have NEVER had a solitary mention of 'public interest' yet when we want information which would prove White to be a Police grass we are suddenly told it would not be in the public's interests to disclose any information!  Any authority holding information has a duty to disclose it UNLESS certain criteria applies, the most common one being that it contains information about specific people so if a request was submitted which said "I would like to know if Tony White of Armley was raided on the 1st October" they would instantly refuse to disclose BUT if a request is for generic, no-specific-names information they can not cite this exclusion YET it seems West Yorkshire Police are now doing precisely this.  Why I wonder?

Seems to me they might, just might be doing it to protect one of their most prolific informants? I have AGAIN complained to West Yorkshire Police this evening (below).  It is blatantly obvious that West Yorkshire Police are breaching the Freedom Of Information Act to protect a snitch.  And that just is not right so I think they need to be told this.  

Dear Ms. Vickers-Pearson.

You requested an additional twenty days to consider whether a FOI request was exempt under the guise of 'public interest' - this was notified to me in the below email on the 27th January and the twenty day period expired on the 20th of February yet some three weeks later I have not received any additional requests for extensions to this request or indeed I have not received ANY contact from you whatsoever. I consider this at best to be discourteous and at worst a breach of the Freedom Of Information Act. 

The information requested would in no way whatsoever be detrimental to the public interest and there is no conceivable reason for your refusing to disclose it, furthermore there is resolutely no excuse for the unprofessional and generally inept handling of this request for information held by West Yorkshire Police.

I require a comprehensive account of why these repeated incidences of ineptitude have occurred and I also require a full and final response to my request as is my legal right under the Freedom Of Information Act.

This is yet another inconsistency surrounding the entire debacle.  WHY has White not produced the paper work to prove him innocent?  

WHY has he not shown BOTH warrants? 

WHY has he offered no explanation as to why his OWN HANDWRITING appears on the alleged 2008 search warrant? 

If he WAS raided and a stun gun WAS seized as he claims then WHY oh WHY was his licence not instantly revoked?

Because he is a filthy Police informer that's why.