FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
GPO Box 401 Canberra City ACT 2601 Telephone (02) 6131 6131 Email foi@afp.gov.au www.afp.gov.au ABN 17 864 931 143

Our Ref: CRM 2017/229

8 November 2016

Citizen

Email: foi+request-2677-b1c1eb30@righttoknow.org.au

Dear Citizen,

Your Freedom of Information Request

I refer to your email dated 6 November 2016 in which you seek access to documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the Act) as follows:

“Information regarding documents or correspondence that reveals:

The number of serving AFP personnel with criminal convictions;

The ranks/gradings of those personnel;

The nature/type of convictions outline in (1);

The number of AFP personnel dismissed from the AFP following criminal convictions from 1 January 2013 to November 2016;

The nature/type of criminal convictions resulting in dismissal in (4).”

Information considered irrelevant to the scope of your request

The AFP, in its management of FOI requests, excludes the following information on the basis that is irrelevant to the scope of a request:

Names of AFP members, other than the Senior Executive.

Direct telephone numbers, signatures and mobile telephone numbers of AFP members.

Duplicate documents, including duplicate emails. The AFP will only provide emails where they form a final email chain and the authors/recipients are contained within the final email.

Information that is publicly available, for example, newspaper articles, online publications including information available on the AFP Information Publication Scheme and the AFP disclosure log.

If you object to the AFP excluding any of the above information, please advise this office within seven days of receipt of this letter.

Your request was received by this agency on 6 November 2016 and the 30 day statutory period for processing your request commenced from that date.

You will be notified of any charges in accordance with the Freedom of Information (Fees and Charges) Regulations, should they apply, in relation to your request as soon as practicable.

Disclosure Log

Please be advised that in accordance with section 11C of the Act, an agency is required to publish information on their website following the notification of a decision in respect of a freedom of information request.

The requirement to publish information released under FOI reinforces the objectives of the FOI Act to promote a pro-disclosure culture across government and to increase recognition that information held by government is a national resource. Exceptions to the requirement to publish information would apply to personal information and information concerning the business affairs of a person if it was considered ‘unreasonable’ to do so. Details of the decision may be published in a Disclosure Log which can be found at https://www.afp.gov.au/about-us/information-publication-scheme/routinely-requested-information-and-disclosure-log. Publication will be made in accordance with timeframes stipulated in section 11C of the Act.

If, however, after noting the above, you wish to raise any concerns about the publication of information concerning your request prior to the notification of a decision, please advise this office in writing before 6 December 2016. If you do not raise any concerns prior to the date of the decision, the AFP will publish the information as notified to you in the decision.

Yours sincerely

Tanya Sandner

Team Member

Freedom of Information