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I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 concerning the processing of shotgun certificate applications and renewals by your force. Please provide the following information: 1. The current average processing time, in days, for a new shotgun certificate application. 2. The current average processing time, in days, for a shotgun certificate renewal. 3. The number of new shotgun certificate applications currently awaiting determination. 4. The number of shotgun certificate renewal applications currently awaiting determination. 5. The oldest outstanding shotgun certificate application or renewal, expressed as the number of days it has been awaiting determination. If your force does not record an exact average processing time, please provide the closest equivalent information that you routinely record. For the avoidance of doubt, this request relates only to shotgun certificates. I am not requesting information concerning firearm certificates or other firearms licensing matters. The information supplied will be used as part of the Guns & Clays UK Shotgun Certificate Delays – Police Force Tracker, which compares publicly reported processing times across UK police forces: https://gunsandclays.co.uk/shotgun-certificate-delays/
Published: 5 October 2026
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I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding alcoholic drinks seized, retained or otherwise held by your force. Please provide the following information, where recorded, for each financial year from 2021/22 to 2025/26, and for 2026/27 to the most recent available date: 1. The number of bottles, containers or separately recorded items of alcoholic drink seized or taken into police possession. 2. Where possible, a breakdown by drinks category 3. The recorded estimated, retail, replacement or evidential value of those alcoholic drinks currently held, if such a valuation exists. 4. The force's policy or standard procedure for alcoholic drinks once they are no longer required as evidence or property.
Published: 5 October 2026
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I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am seeking figures for recorded crimes of burglary and theft occurring at construction or building sites in your force area over the last five full years (2020 to 2025). If you can provide the data for 2026 too (year to date or up to the most recent date you can) this will also be gratefully received. By "construction or building site" I mean premises where building, civil engineering or demolition work is taking place, including sites under active development and their associated compounds, site offices and storage. If you hold a searchable "location type" or "premises type" field, please provide figures for whichever categories correspond to construction/building sites and state those in your response. For each of the five years (and 2026 if applicable) please provide the number of recorded crimes, broken down by offence type, for: 1. Burglary (business and community / non-residential) at construction or building sites; and 2. Theft of building materials, plant, tools or equipment from construction or building sites. In addition, for each of these recorded crimes, is it possible to provide a geographic breakdown at the most detailed area level you are able to release without breaching data protection? — for example by local authority district, policing area/BCU, town, or partial (outward) postcode.
Published: 5 October 2026
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide data relating to offences of non-fatal strangulation and suffocation (Home Office offence code 8/77 or equivalent classification used by your force). Please provide the following information for the period 1 January 2023 to the most recent date for which complete data is available. 1. Recorded offences For each calendar year (2023, 2024, 2025 and year-to-date 2026), please provide: * Total number of recorded non-fatal strangulation and suffocation offences. 2. Victim demographics For the same period, please provide the number of offences broken down by: * Victim sex/gender * Victim age group * Victim ethnicity Please provide counts rather than individual-level data. 3. Suspect demographics For the same period, please provide the number of identified suspects broken down by: * Sex/gender * Age group * Ethnicity 4. Domestic abuse Please provide: * Number of offences flagged as domestic abuse-related. * Number not flagged as domestic abuse-related. 5. Outcomes Please provide the final recorded outcome for offences recorded during the period, including counts for: * Charged/summonsed * Caution * Community resolution * Evidential difficulties * Victim does not support action * Investigation complete with no suspect identified * Under investigation * Any other outcome categories used by the force 6. Repeat victims Where recorded and retrievable within cost limits, please provide: * Number of unique victims. * Number of victims linked to two or more recorded non-fatal strangulation offences during the period. 7. Children Please provide: * Number of victims aged under 18. * Number of suspects aged under 18.
Published: 5 October 2026
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Please provide the information for each requested category separately for each calendar year: * 2021 * 2022 * 2023 * 2024 * 2025 * 2026 year-to-date, up to the latest available date. 1. The total number of recorded sexual offences reported by the victim, where the victim was a female UK national and the alleged offender was recorded as a doctor / GP practitioner. 2. The total number of recorded sexual offences reported by the victim, where the victim was a foreign national female and the alleged offender was recorded as a doctor / GP practitioner. For each of the two categories above, please provide: * the total number of recorded offences; and * the numerical breakdown of the outcomes of those cases, using your existing recorded outcome classification (or the closest equivalent), with the number of cases for each outcome. Please provide the outcome figures separately for each category. 3. Cancelled offences Separately, please provide the total number of recorded sexual offences that were not investigated and were subsequently cancelled, where the recorded cancellation reason was: "crime registered in error" Please provide these figures separately for each year: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 year-to-date.
Published: 5 October 2026
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Please provide the following information for each calendar year from 2019 to 2025 inclusive: 1) The number of recorded voyeurism offences recorded by Avon and Somerset Constabulary in each year. 2) Of the voyeurism offences identified in Question 1, the number that involved a person being recorded or filmed without their consent, where this can be identified from your records. Please provide the information broken down by individual year.
Published: 1 October 2026
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May I have your help please? I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 1. 2. 3. In the calendar year of 2025, how many fixed penalty notices for cyclists were issued by officers? 4. 5. A) Please may this be broken down by offence type 6. 1. 2. 3. In the calendar year of 2024, how many fixed penalty notices for cyclists were issued by officers? 4. 5. A) Please may this be broken down by offence type 6. 7. 8. 1. 2. 3. In the calendar year of 2023, how many fixed penalty notices for cyclists were issued by officers? 4. 5. A) Please may this be broken down by offence type 6. 1. 2. 3. In the calendar year of 2022, how many fixed penalty notices for cyclists were issued by officers? 4. 5. A) Please may this be broken down by offence type 6. 7. 8. 1. 2. 3. In the calendar year of 2021, how many fixed penalty notices for cyclists were issued by officers? 4. 5. A) Please may this be broken down by offence type 6.
Published: 1 October 2026
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I would be grateful if you could provide data for the period 1 January 2018 to 31 August 2026 relating to the following offences: 1. Encouraging or assisting serious self-harm, as introduced by the Online Safety Act 2023. 2. Section 2 of the Suicide Act 1961 (encouraging or assisting suicide). Requested Information For each of the above offences, please provide annual figures for the period specified, broken down by: * Number of individuals cautioned * Number of individuals charged * Number of individuals prosecuted (i.e., cases brought before a court) * Number of convictions secured (if held by your organisation) Demographic Breakdown Where available, please also provide demographic information for both victims and suspected perpetrators, broken down as follows: Victims * Gender * Age (either exact age or age bands, depending on what is held) Perpetrators / Suspects * Gender * Age (either exact age or age bands) If demographic data is not held for all stages (e.g., cautions vs. prosecutions), please provide it for any stage where it is recorded.
Published: 1 October 2026
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Please provide the following information in relation to police involvement with Emergency Protection Orders (EPOs) under the Children Act 1989: 1. For the calendar years 2023 and 2024, and for the period 1 January 2025 to 30 June 2025, on how many occasions did police officers attend alongside a local authority Children's Services practitioner for the purpose of assisting with the execution of an Emergency Protection Order under the Children Act 1989? 2. Where this information is recorded, for the same periods, please provide: * the total number of police officers deployed to such attendances; and * the total number of police officer hours spent attending such incidents.
Published: 30 September 2026
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How many times in the last year from the date of this you have requested help from other police forces under the mutual aid system?
Published: 17 July 2026
