Letter to the LGO from the Complainant, dated 19th April 2011
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Reference: 10 000 639/B2/JM dated 25 March 2011 Dear Ms Martin, Complaint against Portsmouth City Council I thank you for your letter at reference. There are a number of points that I would like to raise. I received a letter from your Investigator Mr Miles dated 8 October 2010 where he states ʻI am writing to advise that I have received additional information from the Council in reply to my enquiries. I am seeking its response on queries that remain outstanding. I shall write to you again as soon as possible.ʼ In his email of 9 November 2010 18:25:40 GMT he states ʻI would like to visit you to discuss the complaint.ʼ I received no further correspondence from Mr Miles about the ʻadditional information from the Councilʼ nor have I been visited to ʻdiscuss the complaint.ʼ Without this further information, that your Investigator has neither written to me about nor discussed with me, how can I be expected to comment on your provisional conclusion? How, in fact, could the provisional conclusion have been written in the first place? It would appear that because I put in freedom of Information requests for information that your organisation refused to provide, that once again it has gone into ʻcover upʼ mode, evidenced by the facts stated above, namely that a provisional conclusion has been sent to me without me being able to either see or comment on evidence that was promised to me by your Investigator. I have already partially commented on the provisional conclusions in my letter to you of 1 March 2011. I should not have had to have done this for the above reasons. I therefore request that the information that I was promised be forwarded to me, that I comment on it and after my comments have been received, then the provisional conclusions can be written. With regards to Mr Pollard, he was an Investigator on a previous related compliant before he was elevated to his present position. I questioned his integrity at this time. This complaint should be in your records, if not I can provide a reference. Yours sincerely, Keith Edmunds |