Tripartite Group meeting April 2022 (FOI)

Request

A meeting of the Tripartite Group took place on 1 April 2022.

It was attended by members of, amongst others, the States of Jersey Police.

Please provide a copy of the portion of the minutes of the meeting relating to steps being taken to freeze Russian-related assets.

Response

​The States of Jersey Police neither confirm nor deny whether the minutes of 1 April 2022 relate to steps being taken to freeze Russian-related assets. Articles 10(2) and (3) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 are engaged. 

Article applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding Information

(2) If a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority and –

(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt

information or qualified exempt information if it had held it, the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.

(3) If a scheduled public authority so refuses –

(a) it shall be taken for the purpose of this Law to have refused to supply the information requested on the ground that it is absolutely exempt information; and

(b) it need not inform the applicant of the specific ground upon which it is refusing the request or, if the authority does not hold the information, the specific ground upon which it would have refused the request had it held the information.