Price and Department of Police

Application number:
1996 S0168
Decision date:
Friday, Jun 29, 2001

Price and Queensland Police Service
 (1996 S0168, 29 June 2001) 

Price and Queensland Police Service
 (1996 S0183, 29 June 2001) 

The applicant had made numerous FOI access applications to the QPS.  'Sufficiency of search' issues which are common to more than one review and had been previously dealt with arose in this review. 

Under s.77 of the FOI Act, the Information Commissioner declined to review those aspects of the QPS's decisions.  In relation to the balance of the 'sufficiency of search' issues raised by the applicant, the Information Commissioner found that the search efforts undertaken by the QPS to locate matter responsive to the terms of the relevant FOI access applications had been reasonable in all the circumstances.

A regards the matter in issue, applying the principles stated in Byrne and Gold Coast City Council (1994) 1 QAR 477 and Godwin and Queensland Police Service (1997) 4 QAR 70, the Information Commissioner found that the matter in issue was exempt from disclosure s.44(1) of the FOI Act.