I ask to be provided information held about the/your:
- agreement for the sharing of
a. the UK’s PNC LoS (VRM) records with other countries
b. other countries sharing information with the UK - policy/procedure when notified a vehicle stolen in the UK has been recovered abroad
- policy/procedure to be adopted by the country recovering/possessing the vehicle. Should
this not be a general (all-encompassing, all country but individual to each) policy, I ask to
be provided with the arrangement insofar as it pertains to Lithuania - any UK Interpol office contact, phone number and email for liaison about LoS vehicles
located abroad
NPCC Response:
NPCC Response:
29/04/2024
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NUMBER: 105/2024
I can confirm that the NPCC does not hold recorded information captured by questions 1 – 3 of
your request.
The NPCC does hold information captured by question 4 of your request however it has been
withheld under Section 23 – Information supplied by, or concerning, certain security bodies. For full
details of the legislation, please see Annex A below.
Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires the NPCC, when refusing to provide
information by way of exemption in question and (c) states why the exemption applies. In
accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 this letter acts as a refusal notice to those
aspects of your request.
Legislation – Section 23 Information supplied by, or concerning, certain security bodies
(1) Information held by a public authority is exempt information if it was directly or indirectly
supplied to the public authority by, or relates to any of the bodies specified in subsection (3)
This is an absolute exemption and there is no requirement to consider the public interest test
