Covid-19 Ticket App - 475/2020

Please provide the following information about your force’s use of the Covid-19 Ticket app for the period between March 2020 and the end of June 2020; if you do not hold this information for the whole length of the period stated above, please provide it for the period starting from the date you began recording the information:

a. The number of times the Covid-19 Ticket app has been used;
b. The number of times the Covid-19 Ticket app has been used in conjunction with the mobile biometrics fingerprint scanners and app;
c. The following information about each search: which database was searched (Police [IDENT1] or Immigration [IABS]) or both, date, reason for fingerprinting, officer defined ethnicity, self defined ethnicity, PNC search location, response (i.e. whether the search returned a record. If so, please specify which database the record was returned from);
d. How many times was Command & Control contacted following a search.
If you believe that any of these individual questions will or are likely to cause the request to exceed the ‘appropriate’ time limit under Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, or should you require any clarification of the above questions, please do not hesitate to contact me and I will revise the request accordingly.