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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
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The primary focus of this request is to gather information on the scale of offences where criminals threaten a school that they will release AI generated/manipulated sexual images of multiple pupils unless payment is reached. To assist your estimation of workload, my understanding is that these offenses are likely to be rare - a similar FOI to a large force yielded a response identifying less than ten relevant crimes. Under the FOIA could you please: a)Provide the numbers of recorded crime between 1 Jan 2024 to 2 Sep 2026 for the offences of blackmail and/ or Sexual Offences Act 2003 - sharing or threatening to share intimate photograph or film, where the recorded location is an educational premises and where the offences described above were in relation to a threat to publish/distribute AI generated/manipulated sexual images (deepfakes) of multiple pupils unless a payment was made. b)For each offence in (a), please state the date the crime was recorded, the type of school (or other type of educational institution) it was that suffered the threat ie; primary / secondary etc. I do not expect you to search the internet to see what type of school they are, if the type of school or institution is not recorded please just identify as "educational premises". c)Supply the outcome of any investigation e.g "Investigation Complete: No suspect identified." In displaying the answers please group the crimes by each institution. You may assign a letter to the institution to make it clear where crimes relate to the same institution and to differentiate it from others of the same type if that is helpful For example, you might tabulate the data as below: School (A), 7/7/24, Blackmail, Complete: No suspect identified, School (A), 7/7/24, SOA 2003, Complete: No suspect identified School (B), 9/5/24, SOA 2003, Ongoing. Educational premise (A), 4/5/24, Blackmail, Ongoing
Published: 28 October 2026
