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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
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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
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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
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information concerning structured immigration-status information held within your custody, arrest or records-management systems. For clarity, I am not requesting a manual review of individual records, free-text fields, case files, intelligence records, documents or attachments. I am seeking only information that can be obtained from existing structured fields and existing automated reporting/database functionality. 1. Systems Please identify the principal system currently used to record arrests/custody records, for example Niche RMS, Athena/Connect or another system. Please also identify, where readily available, the reporting or Business Intelligence tool used to produce statistical reports from that system, for example Power BI, BOXI or equivalent. 2. Immigration-status fields Please confirm whether arrest or custody records contain any structured field recording immigration status or an equivalent category. This might, for example, be called: “Immigration Status” “Custody Person Immigration Status” “Cust Per Immigration Status” or another equivalent field. Please provide the name of the field used by your force. 3. Available values Please provide the selectable values, codes or categories available within that structured field and their definitions. For example, another UK police force has disclosed categories including: ASY – Asylum seeker EXP – Expired status ILE – Illegal entry ILL – Illegal immigrant ILR – Indefinite leave to remain ILT – Indefinite leave to enter IMG – Legal immigrant RCL – Refugee claimant REF – Refugee SVA – Student visa VIS – Legal visitor WVA – Working visa I am not assuming your force uses these categories. Please provide the values actually used by your system. 4. Annual arrest-record totals For each calendar year from 1 January 2018 to the latest date available, please provide the number of arrest/custody records falling within each value of the structured immigration-status field. Please also provide: * number recorded as blank / not recorded / unknown; * total number of arrest records for each year. I am requesting arrest records rather than unique individuals, unless your existing reporting system only produces figures by individual, in which case please state this. Please supply the information in spreadsheet or CSV format where possible. 5. Automated reporting Please confirm whether the figures requested in Question 4 can be obtained through an existing automated query, reporting tool, Business Intelligence system or database report without manually examining individual records. If yes, please identify the reporting system where readily available. 6. Where information is unavailable If your force does not have a structured immigration-status field capable of producing these figures, please simply confirm: “No structured field/report capable of producing the requested figures is held.” There is no requirement to search free-text records to answer this request. If the field or reporting capability was introduced during the requested period, please provide figures from the earliest date for which they are electronically retrievable and state that date.
Published: 26 October 2026
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Please provide the following information for the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025, broken down by calendar year. 1. The total number of spiking incidents reported to your force. Please include both recorded crimes and non-crime incidents, and show these separately if possible. 2. Of these, the number administered via vape or e-cigarette. 3. Of these, the number where the substance involved was recorded or confirmed (for example, by toxicology), broken down by: prescription or over-the-counter medicines, other drugs, and substances not recorded or unknown. 4. The number of the incidents in question 1 that resulted in a charge or summons. For this request, "spiking" means any incident recorded using your force's spiking flag, marker or qualifier, or recorded under an offence of administering a substance without consent. If complying with the full request would exceed the cost limit, please prioritise questions 1 and 2, and advise me under section 16 how the request could be narrowed. I'd be grateful to receive the data in a spreadsheet format (Excel or CSV) if possible.
Published: 22 October 2026
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I am writing to request information from your force on spiking incidents. Please provide me with the following information: 1. The number of spiking-related offences recorded by your force in the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. For 2026, please provide me with data up to September (1 January 2026 to 1 September 2026), or if data is not held up to 1 September, the most recent available data. Please break this data down by year and, if possible, by month. 1. For each year, please also provide me a summary of the outcome of each offence (e.g., in 2026, 100 offences led to a charge, 200 led to a caution, etc.). 1. If this falls within the time/cost limit, please provide me with information on the nature of spiking incidents in each year, offering a description of what was spiked (for example, in 2026, 100 offences involved vape spiking; 60 involved spiking of prescription medication; 200 involved spiking of drinks; etc. I appreciate the descriptive categories held by your force may be different - these are simply illustrative examples. But if the offences can be categorised in any way to clarify what item was spiked, that'd be great). For your reference, the Met Police appears to collate data in this way: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqzez9p7wd0ro Please treat each question as a separate request - hence, if one question is subject to an exemption, please do not disregard the remaining questions.
Published: 22 October 2026
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REQUEST 1: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What would you like to know?: Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information relating to arrests made by City of London Police. For each calendar year from 2015 to 2019, please provide the number of arrests and, where available, the percentage that each category represents of all arrests in that year, broken down by: * ethnic group * sex * age group * reason/offence category for arrest. Please include any categories recorded as unknown, not stated, other, or missing, where applicable. Where the data can be broken down by more than one of the above categories simultaneously (for example, sex and age group together), please provide it on that combined basis. If it is only possible to provide single-category breakdowns, please provide those instead. Please provide the information in an electronic format (such as Excel or CSV), together with any accompanying definitions, metadata, data dictionaries or explanatory notes necessary to interpret the data. If calendar-year data are unavailable, financial-year data covering the same period would be acceptable.
Published: 21 October 2026
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In each case I would be grateful if you could provide the age groups and gender of the alleged victims, if possible. Please state the number of drink spiking incidents reported to your constabulary in each of the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Please state the number of needle spiking incidents reported to your constabulary in each of the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Please state the number of vape spiking incidents reported to your constabulary in each of the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Please state the number of cigarette spiking incidents reported to your constabulary in each of the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Please state the number of food spiking incidents reported to your constabulary in each of the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Published: 20 October 2026
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Hope you're well. I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000: The number of drug driving offences recorded for the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 to date. 1. Please can this be broken down by age, age and gender, and month of offence for each year. 2. If time allows, please also provide the number of offences broken down by age and time of day, e.g. 12am - 1am, 1am, - 2am, etc. 3. If you're unable to break down by hours of the day, please provide for day time / night time offences, e.g. 7pm - 7am, 7am - 7pm If any part of this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under section 12 of the Act, I would be grateful if you could contact me to discuss how it might be narrowed. I would prefer to receive the information as a spreadsheet/CSV where the information is structured data. I look forward to a response within 20 working days, as required by the Act.
Published: 20 October 2026
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Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting recorded crime data regarding vehicle component theft and vehicle stripping involving Electric (BEV), Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV), and Hybrid vehicles. Please provide the following recorded crime data covering the 24-month period from August 1st, 2024, to August 31st, 2026, in an open, structured format (CSV or Excel): 1. 2. 3. Total Incident Count: 4. The total number of recorded offences logged under Home Office Offence Classification 045 (Theft 5. from a Motor Vehicle) 6. where the vehicle involved is tagged or logged with a fuel type marker of EV, BEV, PHEV, or Hybrid.. 7. 8. 9. 10. Component Breakdown (Keyword Search/ Automated System: 11. If available via standard database tag queries or automated keyword searches within crime logs summaries (e.g., 12. "battery", 13. "charging cable", 14. "infotainment", 15. "screen", 16. "inverter", 17. "catalytic converter"), 18. a breakdown of the top stolen components recorded under these offences. 19. Section 12 Priority Clause If you estimate that complying with this request in full will exceed the statutory time limit under Section 12 FOIA: * * * Prioritise Point 1: * Provide the overall total incident count under Offence Classification 045 for EV/PHEV/Hybrids over the requested 24-month period using automated database field queries. * * * * Omit manual log reviews: * If extracting the component breakdown (Point 2) requires manual reading of individual officer text narratives that triggers a Section 12 refusal, please omit Point 2 and provide the automated query results for Point 1. *
Published: 20 October 2026
