FOI 2460189 - Police injury awards

Your Request

1. Please provide the total number of police injury awards your force currently has in
payment.
2. For each of the years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, and 2025/26
please provide:
i. The number of new injury awards put into payment.
ii. A breakdown of the disablement bands of the new injury awards put into payment i.e. slight, moderate, substantial or severe.
iii. the total amounts paid in injury awards (not just the new awards put into payment in each year), including injury gratuity.

Freedom of Information Act 2000

I can confirm that Durham Constabulary holds the information that you have requested. Please see the response below:

Question 1
162

Question 2(i)

Question 2(ii)

The request has been considered in full and I am not obliged to provide any further information relevant to your request by virtue of following exemption: - Section 40(2) Personal information

Section 40 is an absolute class-based exemption which does not require the public interest to be considered nor harm to be articulated with Section 40(2) specifically relating to third party personal information as defined by the Data Protection Act, 2018, (DPA). Disclosure of the requested information would constitute a breach of Principle 1 as set out in Article 5(1) of the UK GDPR and section 34(1) of the DPA. Principle 1 states that personal data shall be processed (used) fairly and lawfully. Durham Constabulary considers where very low numbers are involved, in addition to other background information, there is sufficient risk that individuals would be identified (by triangulation of requested data with other information held or otherwise known). Whilst identification by the general public is highly unlikely, to provide a yearly breakdown of the level of disablement would almost certainly lead to identification of these individuals by other members of Durham Constabulary personnel.

In reaching this conclusion I am mindful of the conditions for lawful processing and have judged that individuals have a reasonable and legitimate privacy expectation that their personal details are processed accordingly. The individuals concerned have not consented to disclosure of data in this context and have a legitimate privacy expectation that their personal details would not be disclosed.

This response therefore acts as a refusal notice under section 17 of the FoIA.