Thank you for your email dated 21 September 2021 requesting the following information: “For each stage of the selection process please outline how many recruits successfully made it past this stage vs how many applicants made it to this stage of the process within the last 12 months from today's date, 21 September 2021. Please format the data in a table with columns for the 'Step', 'Reach Step', and 'Pass Step'. Where 'Reach Step' is the number of applicants that reach that step, and 'Pass Step' is the number of applicants who pass that step”
Your request has been considered in accordance with the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) and is refused pursuant to section 18(f) of the OIA, as the information requested cannot be made available without substantial collation. This is because Police do not store this information in a manner that is easily retrievable, and it would involve the manual searching of every recruit case file which would require substantial new work to collate and report on.
You have the right under section 28(3) of the OIA to ask the Ombudsman to seek an investigation and review of my decision.
