Received: 26 April 2024

The following information is requested in relation to persons employed and or contracted by or to the Police Federation (Pol Fed), their relationships to each other, the CEO, and their appointment processes to work for the Police Federation either directly or contracted.

 Chris Elmitt.

Please provide the following information

1. Is Chris directly employed by the Pol Fed or is he contracted work as an external agent / company?
2. Is Chris payed £6000, or close or similar amount, per month to oversee Project Sunrise?

a. if not, what is his pay (please include bonuses, benefits and other financial rewards)?

3. Is Chris to be appointed as Chief Of Staff (or equivalent or similar role irrespective of particulars of job title proposed or yet to be agreed)?
4. Is the Chief of Staff role a Pol Fed role or a contracted out role?
5. What recruitment process have you put in place or are putting in place for the role of Chief of Staff (or similar role irrespective of particulars of job title, proposed or yet to be agreed)?
6. Who appointed Chris as overseeing Project Sunrise? 
7. Was he appointed to the role by Mukund Krishna in his role or before his appointment as CEO?
8. Did Chris have a professional or personal relationship / friendship with Mukund Krishna prior to his appointment)?

Responded: 15 May 2024

Mr Elmitt is engaged as an external contractor by the PFEW in the capacity of programme/project manager for Project Sunrise. He was appointed by Mukund Krishna in his role as CEO. He had previously been engaged by the PFEW in 2022 (when Mr Krishna was COO) to provide training. Prior to that he had no prior professional/personal relationship or friendship with Mr Krishna. Mr Elmitt is not engaged as Chief of Staff and there is no current role of Chief of Staff within the PFEW. There are plans to appoint a permanent Chief of Staff which will be a PFEW role, once the PFEW is through the current challenging litigation climate. The recruitment for this role will follow the standard PFEW process. In relation to questions regarding Mr Elmitt's compensation, this information amounts to personal data in accordance with Article 4(1) of the UK General Data Protection regulation (“UK GDPR”). This states “personal data means any information relating to an identifiable natural person”. The PFEW does not consider it has any legitimate interest in providing this personal data. Furthermore, the PFEW considers that the need to protect the interests/fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual militates in favour of not disclosing the personal data requested. As such, the PFEW considers that there is no lawful basis for it to process the relevant personal data by providing it in response to this request and to do so would contravene Article 5(1)(a) of the UK GDPR, namely the principle that personal data “shall be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject”. Accordingly, the PFEW relies on the exemption set out in sections 40(2) and 40(3A)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FOIA”) which provides that information which constitutes personal data is exempt information if disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under FOIA would contravene any of the data protection principles.