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* "Motorcycle" means any powered two-wheeled vehicle, including mopeds and scooters. If your records use a different definition, please say what it is. * "Motorcycle theft" means any recorded offence of theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle (or the equivalent classification in Scotland or Northern Ireland) where the vehicle was a motorcycle. * "2023" and "2025" mean the calendar years 1 January to 31 December. Questions Q2. Motorcycle theft has no Home Office crime classification of its own and is recorded within the general Theft of a Motor Vehicle category. Does your force use any marker, tag, qualifier, internal code or vehicle-type field that allows motorcycle thefts to be identified separately within that category? If so, please describe it and state whether completing it is mandatory. Q3. The number of motorcycles reported stolen in your force area in 2023 and in 2025. If these figures cannot be produced from your crime recording system without a manual review of individual records, please say so, and say what would be needed to make it possible. Q4. Details of any operations, dedicated resourcing or cross-force intelligence-sharing arrangements aimed specifically at motorcycle theft between 1 January 2023 and the date of this request, with approximate dates. Q5. The number of motorcycle theft offences in which a suspect was identified, in 2023 and in 2025. Q6. Of the offences in Q5, the number that resulted in a charge for theft, handling stolen goods or conspiracy, rather than taking without consent alone, in 2023 and in 2025. Q7. The number of stolen motorcycles recovered in 2023 and in 2025. If these figures cannot be produced without a manual review of individual records, please say so. Q8. A copy of any written policy, protocol or guidance on how officers or the control room respond to a live tracker or GPS activation alert on a stolen motorcycle. If there is no motorcycle-specific version, please provide the one that covers stolen vehicles generally. Q9. The number of times since 29 June 2026 an officer has authorised a search under section 26A of the Theft Act 1968 (inserted by section 171 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026) in relation to a stolen motorcycle, and a copy of any written policy or training material on the use of that power. If this power does not apply in your jurisdiction, please say so. Q11. Details of any engagement your force has had on secure motorcycle parking provision since 1 January 2023, with a local authority or otherwise, for example advice from Designing Out Crime Officers or involvement in Park Mark/Safer Parking assessments covering motorcycle parking. If no central record is held, please say so. How to answer Please answer each question under its number, giving figures as 2023 / 2025. Where information is not held, please say so against that question rather than leaving it out. A statement that a figure cannot be produced without a manual review of records is a complete answer to that part of the question. If answering the whole request would exceed the cost limit, please tell me, under your duty to advise and assist, which questions can be answered within it. My order of priority is Q2, Q3, Q7, Q8, Q9, Q5, Q6, Q4, Q11.
Published: 4 November 2026
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please could you provide the following information for each of the financial years 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26: 1. The total number of missing person incidents involving children aged 17 or under recorded by your force. 2. Of those missing person incidents involving children aged 17 or under, the number where a child sexual exploitation (CSE) marker, flag or equivalent vulnerability marker was recorded against the missing person incident. Please provide the figures broken down by financial year. I am seeking aggregate figures only and am not requesting any personal data or information that could identify individual children. If your force does not use a specific CSE marker, please provide the equivalent figure using the closest relevant category or marker available in your systems, and please specify the category used.
Published: 3 November 2026
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What would you like to know?: Freedom of Information request: drone/UAS incidents affecting specified infrastructure Please provide recorded information about confirmed or suspected drone/UAS activity from 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026 inclusive affecting: * defence sites, including military bases/barracks, RAF/Royal Navy sites, military airfields, dockyards/shipyards, ammunition/storage facilities, privately operated sites with a clear defence function and other operational defence sites; * commercial passenger/cargo airports; * licensed civil nuclear sites and associated locations; * major commercial passenger/ferry/freight ports; * major non-nuclear energy facilities, limited to major electricity generation, oil/gas/LNG terminals and refineries. Exclude rail infrastructure, prisons/custodial establishments, ordinary aerodromes/flying clubs/heliports, and authorised police/military/emergency-service/inspection/commercial drone operations where identifiable from existing searchable information. Please use your existing records, systems and ordinary organisational/local knowledge to identify relevant records. I am not asking you to research or compile a definitive list of sites. A potentially relevant record is one involving a confirmed or suspected drone/UAS at, over, within associated restricted airspace, or otherwise directly affecting qualifying infrastructure, where at least one of the following is recorded: police action; security/emergency response; operational disruption; suspected/recorded offence; or unauthorised/suspected unauthorised activity at a sensitive site. For airports, include drone-aircraft near misses where the record identifies a direct effect on airport operations or an aircraft operating to/from the airport. Exclude routine/casual sightings where existing searchable information shows none of those factors. For each identified record, please provide existing: reference number; date; approximate time, where held; location/site; brief description or recorded category; record type, where held. Where already recorded, linked to the incident, or retrievable by straightforward search/lookup without substantial manual review, please also provide: 7. confirmed/suspected/reported/not-a-drone status; 8. number of drones; 9. police/security/emergency response; 10. operational disruption and duration; 11. suspected/recorded offence/classification; 12. whether an operator was identified (yes/no only); 13. arrest/charge/prosecution/conviction outcome; 14. investigation status; 15. incident/operation-specific recorded cost and any existing breakdown/description; 16. existing officer/staff deployment, staff-hour or overtime figures. Please do not create new calculations/classifications, reconstruct costs or staffing, deduplicate records, infer motive/attribution, or undertake substantial manual review of free-text narratives solely to determine whether records qualify. If applying the criteria would require substantial manual review, but potentially relevant drone/UAS records associated with the qualifying infrastructure can instead be retrieved through a straightforward search/export, please provide those records with available information in points 1-6 and I will apply the final criteria. Please provide the information in CSV, Excel or another existing electronic format where reasonably practicable. I do not require full incident reports or personal identifying information.
Published: 3 November 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following recorded information: 1. The number of electric bikes (e-bikes) seized by your force in each month from 1 January 2024 to 30 September 2026. 2. The number of electric scooters (e-scooters) seized by your force in each month over the same period. Definitions By "e-bike", I mean any electric bicycle seized because it did not meet the legal requirements for an electrically assisted pedal cycle (EAPC). This includes bikes fitted with conversion kits or otherwise modified. By "seized", I mean any seizure under any power, for example Section 165A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 or Section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002.
Published: 28 October 2026
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request information regarding the number of reported incidents of spiking within your jurisdiction. Please provide the following data for the last three financial years (2023/24, 2024/25, and 2025/26 to date), broken down by each individual financial year: 1. 2. 3. The total number of reported incidents of spiking. Please include both "drink spiking" and "needle/injection spiking" 4. 5. 6. 7. A breakdown of the total figures by the method of spiking reported (i.e., how many were reported as drink spiking, and how many were reported 8. as needle/injection spiking) 9. 10. 11. 12. A breakdown of the total figures by the gender and age group of the alleged victims 13. 14. 15. 16. A breakdown of the total figures by the type of location where the incident was alleged to have occurred (e.g., nightclub, pub/bar, house 17. party, residential home, outdoor space) 18. 19. 20. 21. A breakdown of the recorded outcomes for these reports (e.g., charge/summons, evidential difficulties, no suspect identified, case dropped). 22. Please provide your response in Excel/Sheets format if possible, and let me know if any amendments are needed. Best wishes, Elle -- Journalist Billion Media
Published: 28 October 2026
