Received: 11 October 2024

1. Please can you tell me (as a paying member of the Police Federation) the Salary of the CEO Mukund Krishna.

2. Please can you share the Job Advert and the times and locations this position was advertised.

Responded: 16 January 2025

1. The PFEW holds data relating to the salary details of its Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), but withholds it under Section 22 of the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"): 'information intended for future publication'. 

i) The PFEW decided that, in the interests of transparency, it would be appropriate to publish the details of its CEO's salary, alongside details of the salary ranges of other senior members of staff within the organisation.  

ii) The PFEW is currently in the process of determining what information to publish in this regard, and in particular which other individuals' compensation details to publish alongside this information, and which other contextual information. The precise information to be published has not yet been determined, nor has the date for publication.  

iii) The requested information therefore falls within the scope of Section 22, and accordingly the PFEW is required to determine whether it would be "reasonable in all the circumstances that the information should be withheld from disclosure until the date [of publication]". 

iv) The PFEW considers that it is reasonable to withhold the requested information until it is formally published. This is on the basis that: 

     a) The PFEW intends to publish the requested information alongside other information, including the salary ranges of other senior members of staff and other contextual information. The PFEW believes that it is reasonable to withhold the requested information until such time as it has been determined what information to publish alongside this, and that the PFEW should be given appropriate time to determine this.  

     b) Furthermore, it is reasonable for the PFEW to control the publication of information, out of fairness to those whose information is due to be revealed.  

     c) The PFEW does not rely on the exemption in Section 40 of FOIA (personal information) in response to the request, yet this exemption remains a live consideration.  A request for details of the CEO's salary is undoubtedly a request for personal data relating to that individual within the meaning of Article 4(1) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation ("UK GDPR") (as supplemented by the Data Protection Act 2018). Information about other individuals' salaries also constitutes their personal data.  Whilst there is an ongoing process within the PFEW to determine the process for publishing details of salaries, it would be unfair to those individuals to disclose such details until that process has taken its proper course. 

v) Accordingly, the PFEW considers that the grounds for withholding the requested information under Section 22 are made out.  

2. The CEO was appointed by the National Board. This was a variation from the then titled role of Chief Operations Officer ("COO") to CEO and as such it was not a new vacancy and therefore it was not advertised and there were no other applicants.