Data Protection & Freedom of Information
In this section you will find details of your right to
access the information that we hold. This is broken down into two
sections, each covered by the Acts of Parliament detailed
below.
The Data Protection Act 1998 came into effect on 1st March 2000 and
provides individuals with a right of access to information that may
be held about themselves.
This is called subject access. It is a qualified right of access,
which does not extend to certain types of information including
information that might identify other individuals whose data is
held under a duty of confidence. For further details of how
to apply for subject access, please see the Data Protection
pages.
Police Certificates
Individuals requiring Police Certificates for the purposes of
applications for emigration, visas, work permits or residency in
Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America
should download the application form for an ACPO Police Certificate
from the ACPO
website. Web address is at:
http//www.acpo.police.uk/certufucates.asp
Please note that this Certificate is processed entirely by
the ACPO Criminal Records Office
(ACRO). All submissions and enquiries
relating to this process should be directed to ACRO, who can be
contacted through the following routes:
Please do not return this application form to
Bedfordshire Police
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) came into force on the
1st January 2005 and it gives individuals the right of access to
all information held, subject to a range of
exemptions.
Information disclosed under FOI is released into
the public domain and not just to the applicant.
For further details of how to submit a request and access this
information, please see the Freedom
of Information pages.
The force is obliged to publish certain classes of information that
have been agreed with the Information Commissioner and provide a
detailed guide as to how the published information may be
accessed.
Information Classes and Guide to Published
Information
In addition, a large amount of information has been published
proactively and is available to download from these pages:
Proactive Disclosure of Information
Please note that where the Force receives a request for
information under FOI that relates specifically to the applicant,
i.e. personal data, a ‘Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ response will be
issued and the request will be passed to the section dealing with
Data Protection matters.