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FOI/202600515952 · FOI · partially withheld

Operation Talla and former Police Scotland Chief Constable correspondence: FOI release

Published
2026-10-26
Received
2026-04-30
Responded
2026-05-29
Directorate
Safer Communities Directorate
Topic
Law and order, Public sector
Exemptions
38(1), 34(1)

Information requested

I would like to request all correspondence that happened involving Chief Constable Ian Livingstone in Operation Talla that was sent to the Scottish Government.

Response

Following a search of our records, the information you have requested can be found in Annex A of this response.

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (Personal Information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.

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Detected exemption language

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (Personal Information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.

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