Freedom of information (FOI) releases from City of London Police

This is a disclosure log of City of London Police's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.

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  1. Staff networks - number of members

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide: The total number of police officers belonging to at least one staff network recognised or supported by your force. The total number of police staff, excluding police officers, belonging to at least one such network. Please include force-specific networks and local branches of national networks. Please count each individual only once, regardless of how many networks they belong to. Please provide the most recent figures held and specify the date to which they relate. If you do not hold figures for unique individuals, please instead provide the membership count for each network, broken down between police officers and police staff where held. I am requesting aggregate numbers only, rather than the identities of individual members. Yours faithfully, Karl Williams

    Published: 28 October 2026

  2. Paid time spent on staff network activities

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the total number of paid working hours spent on activities relating to staff networks recognised or supported by your force during the financial year 2025/26, separately for: 1) Police officers. 2) Police staff, excluding police officers. Please include time spent attending network meetings and events, organising network activities, and administering or representing networks, including force-specific networks and local branches of national networks. If exact totals are not held, please provide any existing estimates or records of allocated staff network hours, specifying what these figures cover and how they were calculated. Yours faithfully, Karl Williams

    Published: 28 October 2026

  3. Senior officers’ staff network membership

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide: The total number of officers serving in your force at the rank of Superintendent (or equivalent) or above who belong to at least one staff network recognised or supported by your force. Please count each officer only once. The names of those networks and, for each network, the number of officers at these ranks who belong to it. Please include force-specific networks and local branches of national networks. For the network-by-network figures, an officer belonging to multiple networks should be counted in each relevant network. Please provide the most recent figures held and specify the date to which they relate. I am requesting aggregate numbers only, rather than the names or other identifying details of individual officers. Yours faithfully, Karl Williams

    Published: 28 October 2026

  4. Records required following police use of force

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide: 1) Copies of your current policies, procedures, checklists and officer guidance specifying the records which officers or police staff must complete, update or submit following a use of force. 2) Any existing list or process map identifying these records and the systems in which they are held. Please include, where applicable: - Use-of-force reporting forms; - Pocket-notebook or electronic-notebook entries; - Evidential statements; - Incident or crime-record updates; - Custody-record entries; - Injury or accident reports; - Safeguarding referrals; - Additional reports relating to Taser, firearms or other equipment. 3) Recorded instructions specifying when these requirements apply, who must complete each record, completion deadlines, and whether each record is required per officer, per subject, per location or per incident. Please include any existing guidance or worked examples illustrating the records required following compliant handcuffing, physical restraint, irritant-spray use and Taser use. I am not asking you to create new worked examples. I seek reporting requirements and blank guidance documents, rather than records of identifiable incidents. Yours faithfully, Karl Williams

    Published: 28 October 2026

  5. Staff network advice to senior officers

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide a list of all instances in which officers serving in your force at the rank of Superintendent (or equivalent) or above sought or received written advice from staff networks recognised or supported by your force during the 12 months preceding receipt of this request. Please include force-specific networks and local branches of national networks, and advice concerning operational, communications/public relations, HR and any other matters. Written advice includes emails, reports, briefing notes and other written submissions. For each instance, please provide, where held: 1) The date. 2) The name of the staff network. 3) The subject or a brief description of the advice sought or received. 4) Whether advice was requested, received, or both. I am requesting a list, rather than copies of the correspondence or advice itself. Where an item's title or subject cannot be disclosed, please retain it in the list with a reference number and provide any remaining information that can be disclosed, including a general description where possible.

    Published: 28 October 2026

  6. Hare coursing

    Please may you provide me with: The total number of arrests on suspicion of hare coursing made by your force, broken down by year (from 2016 to 2025 inclusive) if time allows.

    Published: 27 October 2026

  7. Follow-up to Ref FOI2026/01814

    This is a Freedom of Information request. With reference to your response to my previous request (FOI Ref FOI2026/01814), please provide the following information for the most recent 12-month period for which data is available: 1 January 1. The number of arrests recorded where the individual's date of birth is 1 January (any year). 2. Of the total in (1), how many related to sexual offences. 3. The number of charges brought where the individual's date of birth is 1 January (any year). 4. Of the total in (3), how many related to sexual offences. 2 January 5. The number of arrests recorded where the individual's date of birth is 2 January (any year). 6. Of the total in (5), how many related to sexual offences. 7. The number of charges brought where the individual's date of birth is 2 January (any year). 8. Of the total in (7), how many related to sexual offences.

    Published: 27 October 2026

  8. Taser/CED used to neutralise animals (i.e. non-human animals)

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following for each calendar year 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025: 1. The number of incidents in which an officer discharged a Taser/CED at an animal. 2. For each incident, where electronically recorded, please provide: - the type/species of animal involved; - for dogs, the breed/type if recorded; - whether the animal was injured or killed; - any brief incident description or summary held electronically, for example whether the animal was attacking a person, another animal, a police officer, or was loose in a road/public place. By "discharged", I mean fired at or directly applied to the animal, rather than merely drawn, aimed or red-dotted. If providing any of the incident-level details above would require manual review and engage Section 12, please omit those elements and provide the annual totals and any other information that can be retrieved electronically within the cost limit. If your system only records a broader category such as "animal", please provide the information in the form in which it is held. Spreadsheet format preferred where possible. Kind regards, Mark Tovey

    Published: 26 October 2026

  9. December drunk driving arrests

    I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 1. The number of arrests made by your force for drink-driving offences in December of each year from 2021 to 2025 (1 to 31 December in each year). 2. The number of arrests made by your force for drug driving offences in December of each year from 2021 to 2025 (1 to 31 December in each year). Please count each arrest once per question. If an arrest involved both drink and drug driving offences, please include it in a seperate figure per year. Please provide the information in spreadsheet format (Excel or CSV).

    Published: 26 October 2026

  10. Strava in crime reports

    I am writing the following request under the Freedom of Information Act. Please provide me the following data in a machine-readable spreadsheet (XLSX or ODS file format): 1. The number of crime reports recorded by your force in which the crime report text, or modus operandi report, mentions "Strava", broken down by calendar year for 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 to September 1. If possible, please further break this down by crime category. Please use the following columns in a sheet: police force name, year, total number of crime reports, followed by columns with counts for each crime category where at least one has been recorded (e.g. 'Stalking and Harassment'). 2. Please provide a redacted copy of the free text crime reports for these offences recorded by your force from March 1, 2026 to September 1, 2026. Please use the following columns in a spreadsheet separate to the answer for question 1: force name, report date, crime category, redacted copy of free text. Yours faithfully, Jack Fifield

    Published: 26 October 2026