UK National Crime Agency recommendations (FOI)

​Request

I would like to request a copy of the recommendations from the UK National Crime Agency regarding the Operation Panama, involving the incident involving Mr A Lynch.

Response

The request is declined:

The report and recommendations made in January 2016 by the National Crime Agency are absolutely exempt from disclosure under Article 26 A(2) (n) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

As stated by the States Police in the previously published Freedom of Information response on the disclosure log to the request titled, 'National Crime Agency report (FOI)': "The report contained 13 recommendations relating in the main to Major Incident procedural issues – all were adopted by the Senior Investigating Officer."

National Crime Agency report (FOI)

Exemption:
Article 26A: Information supplied by, or relating to bodies dealing with security matters.

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is held by a scheduled public authority and either or both of the following apply:

(a) It was directly or indirectly supplied to the scheduled public authority by any of the bodies specified in paragraph 2; or

(b) It relates to any of those bodies.

(2) Those bodies are:
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(n) The National Crime Agency formed under Section 1 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 of the United Kingdom.