Response

In relation to your request regarding a full list of our Senior Management Team. The information requested can reasonably be obtained. Therefore, this represents a notice in terms of Section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - the authority considers that the information is already available, therefore there is no need to provide an alternative right of access to it through FOISA.

To assist, a link is provided to this information available on our website - Scottish Police Authority Senior Executives - Scottish Police Authority

The website details the name and job title of each of the Authority’s Senior Executives. In this instance we are unable to provide some of the information requested, that being the direct email addresses for the Senior Management Team. Therefore, this is a notice in terms of Section 38(1)(b) - Third party personal data. Disclosure of the data in question would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. As disclosure through Freedom of Information is disclosure to the public in general, in this instance, it is appropriate to withhold this information. The exemption under Section 38(1)(b) is an absolute exemption and does not require application of the public interest test.

There are established routes for the public to make contact with the Authority on our Contact Us page. General enquiries or correspondence to SPA Corporate can be emailed to enquiries@spa.police.uk or posted to Scottish Police Authority, 1 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DZ. General enquiries or correspondence to SPA Forensic Services Forensic Services can be emailed to ForensicEnquiries@spa.police.uk

In relation to your requests regarding a list of IT staff and staff involved in digital or transformation we refer to our previous response to you in November 2022 - 2022-081 - Details of senior IT staff. The Scottish Police Authority does not hold the information you have requested. Therefore, this represents a notice in terms of Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

To explain, the Authority does not have any IT specific staff as services of this nature are provided by the Digital Division of Police Scotland. Similarly, change/transformation is a service provided to the Authority by Police Scotland. By way of assistance, information may be available by contacting Police Scotland at foi@scotland.police.uk.