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I am submitting this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide information held by your force regarding the procurement and use of Plasan Sandcat Tigris armoured vehicles (including any variant referred to as "Sandcat"). 1. Procurement activity (October 2023 - present) a) The number of Sandcat Tigris (or Sandcat variant) vehicles ordered. b) The number of such vehicles delivered and currently held by the force. c) Please confirm explicitly if no such vehicles have been ordered, delivered, or are planned for purchase. 2. Operational status a) Of any vehicles acquired, how many are available for deployment? b) How many are not available for deployment (for example, undergoing modifications, repair, or awaiting approval)? If you consider releasing this information to be exempt under Section 31 (Law Enforcement) or any other FOIA exemption, please still release all other requested information and provide your reasoning and the outcome of the public interest test. 3. Financial expenditure a) The total cost (including VAT and any associated modifications, fittings, or logistics) for all Sandcat Tigris (or Sandcat variant) vehicles purchased in the above period. b) If vehicles were ordered but payment is not yet complete, please confirm the current status of payments. 4. Supplier/ procurement route a) For each purchase, please confirm whether it was made directly from Plasan Sasa Ltd or via the UK distributor Ricardo UK Ltd. b) If supplier details are considered exempt under Section 43 (commercial interests) or Section 31 (law enforcement), please still release all other requested information and explain the exemption applied, including the public interest test outcome. If you are encountering any practical difficulties with complying with this request, please contact me as soon as possible (in line with your duty under section 16 to advise and assist requesters), so that we can discuss the matter and if necessary I can modify the request. If you are able to supply some of this information more quickly than other items, please supply each item when you can rather than delay everything until it is all available. If it is necessary for any reason to redact any information, please redact the minimum necessary and send me the rest of the material, explaining the legal grounds for each redaction. Please can you acknowledge receipt of this request.
Published: 2 September 2025
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information regarding your forces occupational health and wellbeing provision specifically in relation to the Enhanced Occupational Health Standards developed by the National Police Wellbeing Service Oscar Kilo As you may be aware the Enhanced Standards are part of a national progression framework that builds upon the Foundation Occupational Health Standards with an expected implementation milestone set for 2025 These standards relate to strategic leadership proactive mental health support governance and role specific risk management in high risk occupational groups such as digital forensics firearms and safeguarding units I would therefore be grateful if you could provide responses to the following 1 Has your force formally adopted the Enhanced Occupational Health Standards developed by Oscar Kilo Please answer Yes or No and provide the date of adoption if applicable 2 If your force has not yet adopted the Enhanced Standards is there a planned timeline for doing so Please specify anticipated dates or current stage of implementation 3 Has your force conducted any internal audit assessment or benchmarking against the Enhanced Standards If yes please provide the date or dates and any summary findings or publicly releasable outcomes 4 Does your occupational health provision include tailored psychological support or screening for officers and staff in high risk roles such as digital forensics investigators CSAM units and child protection teams Please provide a description of any specialist services if applicable 5 Has your force submitted any entries to the Oscar Kilo Awards or similar external evaluations of your occupational health standards in the last 3 years If so please confirm and provide a summary or link if available
Published: 2 September 2025
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I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act. Q1) For the past 10 years, please share the number of reports received by the police where a victim suspects hidden spyware, AKA stalkerware, has been installed on their device by someone else, in order to track their location or monitor their activity. Please include search results for any of the following phrases: 'stalkerware', 'spyware', 'mSpy', and 'tracking app'. a) 2015 b) 2016 c) 2017 d) 2018 e) 2019 f) 2020 g) 2021 h) 2022 i) 2023 j) 2024 k) 2025 - latest available data Q2) Of the reports in Q1, how many of the victims were aged under 25? a) 2015 b) 2016 c) 2017 d) 2018 e) 2019 f) 2020 g) 2021 h) 2022 i) 2023 j) 2024
Published: 2 September 2025
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In the last five years, how many children of statutory school age have been in contact with CoL police for an actual or potential offence. Children who are considered as victims are not to be included in this request. Please sperate by which year they came in contact with CoL and how old they were at the time of contact. Please also state the a brief category for each individual, for example; theft or assault.
Published: 2 September 2025
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Between 2018 to 2025, how many times has a GPS device (such as a location tracker or an Apple AirTag) been reported in cases of coercive control? Between 2018 to 2025, how many times has a GPS device (such as a location tracker or an Apple AirTag) been reported in cases of stalking? Please could this information be broken down annually in calendar years in a table format, with a column for each year from 2018-2025. I would like this information to be sent via email - my contact address is holly.evans@independent.co.uk My contact number is 07557735881 should you have any queries. Please could I receive a digital receipt to show that this request has been received.
Published: 2 September 2025
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Between 2019 and 2024 - how many people were charged with a Modern Slavery Act offences
Published: 1 September 2025
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information relating to your police force area: 1. The number of reported incidents of HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) fuel theft in your County for each of the past five full calendar years. 2. The number of prosecutions that have resulted from these reported incidents within the same time periods. If possible, I would appreciate it if the data for each year could also be broken down by month. However, if this is not possible within the cost and time limits of the FOI Act, the annual totals will be sufficient. I look forward to your response within the statutory 20 working days. If you require any clarification, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Published: 1 September 2025
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I am submitting this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide the following information: 1. The total number of police complaints suspended under Regulation 40 of the Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2020 in each of the last five years. 2. A breakdown of these suspensions by the ethnicity of the complainant (using IC codes or the UK standard ethnicity classification, whichever is held). 3. Any internal policies, procedures, or guidance documents that direct how Regulation 40 suspensions should be applied, specifically in relation to complaints that allege racial discrimination, racism, or institutional racism. Please provide the information in electronic format. If you require clarification, please contact me via this email address.
Published: 1 September 2025
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Please can you provide me with the total number of offences recorded by police, broken down by month, since January 2024, of the following offences below. I'm specifically interested in those offences below relating to artificial intelligence usage, so I would like a breakdown to only include those offences which mention "AI", "artificial intelligence" or "deep fake" or "deepfake" in the crime MO notes - NB: if the force already has its own AI flag, please use that instead of the keyword search. For each month since and including January 2023, up to the latest month available, could I have the AI-related offences (as classified using the above search terms): 1. Under Section 66b The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (the offence of sharing or threatening to share an intimate photograph or film of, or appearing to be of, someone - colloquially known as 'revenge pornography' - see college of policing guidance here: https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/sharing-photographs-of-people-intimate-state) 2. Under Section 66 E-F The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (the offence of creating purported intimate image of adult or Requesting the creation of purported intimate image of adult - basically the creation of revenge pornography) 3. Under Section 1a Protection of Children Act 1978 (creating sexually explicit images / pseudo images of a child) 4. Under Section 1b Protection of Children Act 1978 (to distribute or show such indecent photographs) 5. Under Section 1c Protection of Children Act 1978 (to possess such indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs) I would be grateful if you could provide the information requested in a spreadsheet readable format (e.g. an attached xlsx or csv file), rather than a pdf file. For an example of the format of the response I am looking for please see the table below (I've put in dummy data): Offence Jan 2024 Feb 2024 Mar 2024 Apr 2024 May 2024 Jun 2024 Section 66b The Sexual Offences Act 2003 1 2 4 1 2 6 Section 66 E-F The Sexual Offences Act 2003 0 0 0 0 0 0 Section 1a Protection of Children Act 1978 12 5 6 8 24 35 Section 1b Protection of Children Act 1978 12 5 6 8 24 35 Section 1c Protection of Children Act 1978 12 5 6 8 24 35 If you could identify any way my request could be refined in order to fit within cost limits (or other exemptions if you think any apply) it would be great if you could let me know under section 16 of the act!
Published: 19 August 2025
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1 - How many officers were assaulted while on duty in the past four years, and up to July 2025? Please give separate figures for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and up to July 2025. If possible, please break them down by gender of the victim too. 2. How many new officers were employed by this force in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and up to July 2025? Please break the stats down per year and gender.
Published: 12 August 2025
