Received: 3 September 2024

1. Why are you registered as a business if you are publicly funded via council tax and via government grants, again funded by the public via taxes. 

2. Please can you document what special police services are, and what the charge rates are for each category

3. Southern Housing Group Limited Registered Society No. 31055r according to https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04120881/persons-with-significant-control has a significant holding in the shares of Pitcomp233.  Can you please advise why a charitable Housing Association has shares in a policing organisation.

4. Can you please explain why the police need a company that has no assets or income?  128 corresponds to the number of shareholders in your Statement of Capital, which again is 128 shareholds at a nominal amount of £1. As per the below document.

Annual return made up to 21 November 2015 with full list of shareholders

Statement of capital on 2015-12-01 GBP 128

Are these shares being issued as limited liability shares? Is their part purpose to limit the shareholders liability in law?

5. Why is Dermalogica UK Ltd holding shares in the PFEAW? (as per shareholding 16 Annual Return 21st Nov 2015)

6. Why are Linden Homes Southeast Ltd Company No 02849445 listed as a shareholder of Pitcomp 233 on 21/11/2014  with Linden Homes being previously called Pitcomp97. Was this House builder originally owned by the Police Federation?

7. Finally, Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 outlines the conditions for exempting small companies from statutory audits:

Eligibility

A company is exempt from audit if it meets the general small company criteria in section 382 and has a turnover of less than £5.6 million and a balance sheet total of less than £2.8 million. Can you advise why you are registered as a business when you have no assets or profits according to your annual report?

8. Do police officers and police constables have different roles are police officers personally liable should they commit an assault or act dishonourably, whereas police constables have public indemnity insurance.

Responded: 22 November 2024

1. The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is funded solely by membership subscriptions and not via council tax or government grants.

2. Please revert to our covering email.

3. PITCOMP 233 Limited (the "Company") is a residents management company that relates to a development of flats on Highbury Drive, Leatherhead, adjacent to Federation House. The various owners of the flats in this development hold shares in the Company. The PFEW currently owns 11 flats in this development (the "Flats") and 11 shares in the Company (one for each flat) are held by trustees on behalf of the PFEW (listed as "Police Federation Trustees"). The PFEW is a director of the Company.

As the PFEW does not own PITCOMP, Southern Housing Group (SHG) does not have shares in the PFEW, which is a statutory body.  It is possible that SHG also owns some flats on the development and that it is a shareholder of PITCOMP on that basis.

4. The PFEW does hold this data but is exempting it under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000: Information accessible to the applicant by other means.  Please find data in relation to this question detailed in FOI 00392 on our Disclosure Log (https://www.polfed.org/resources/access-to-information/disclosure-log/)

5. Dermalogica does not, nor has it ever had any shares in the PFEW.  The document referred to in the question appears to be PITCOMP’s annual return and not the PFEW’s.  On this basis, it is PITCOMP that Dermalogica held shares in and not the PFEW.

6. Linden Homes has never been owned or had any affiliation with the PFEW and therefore the PFEW does not hold this data.

7. This question appears to concern PITCOMP and therefore the PFEW does not hold this data.

8. The PFEW does hold this data but is exempting it under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000: Information accessible to the applicant by other means.  Please find data in relation to police officers and police constables here: https://www.polfed.org/resources/leaflets-downloads/the-office-of-constable/

Please find information on the liability of police officers within the Police Act 1996, specifically Section 88 here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/16/section/88