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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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I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000: The number of drink driving offences recorded for the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 to date. a. b. c. Please can this be broken down by age, age and gender, and month of offence for each year. d. e. f. g. 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. h. i. j. k. 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 l.
Published: 4 November 2026
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Please provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am only asking for information held in structured fields on your crime recording system (such as offence type, property type, date and location). I am not asking you to read crime reports or free-text notes. For each calendar year 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and for 1 January to 30 September 2026: 1. The number of recorded crimes where a mobile phone was recorded as stolen property. 2. The figures in question 1, split by crime type: robbery of personal property, theft from the person, theft from a vehicle, burglary, and other theft. 3. The figures in question 1, split by ward. If ward is not available, please use postcode district or the smallest area you routinely use (such as neighbourhood policing area). 4. The figures in question 1, split by month. 5. How many of the crimes in question 1 resulted in a charge or summons. 6. If recorded in a structured field, the make of phone stolen (for example Apple, Samsung, Google). 7. If recorded in a structured field, the type of location (for example street, public transport, licensed premises, event venue). 8. If readily available, the figure in question 1 for 2019. Please provide the information in a spreadsheet (Excel or CSV).
Published: 4 November 2026
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I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information held by your police force regarding recorded offences, crimes, or incidents involving Meta smart glasses (including Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and Ray-Ban Stories). Search Methodology & Keyword Guidance To assist with retrieving this information within the statutory cost limit set out under Section 12 of the FOIA, please conduct an electronic keyword search (or database query) across your primary crime recording systems, command and control incident logs, and Modus Operandi (MO) free-text fields. Specifically, please search for the following exact phrases and keywords (including case-insensitive / Ctrl+F equivalent searches): * "META smart glasses" * "Meta glasses" * "Ray-Ban Meta" * "Ray Ban Meta" * "Ray-Ban Stories" * "smart glasses" Information Requested For the 5-year period from 1 October 2021 to 1 October 2026: 1. Total Incident / Crime Count: The total number of recorded crimes or incident logs where one or more of the search terms above appear in the free-text summary, incident description, or MO notes, broken down year-by-year (e.g., 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026). 2. Offence Classification Breakdown: A breakdown of these recorded matters by offence category (e.g., Voyeurism, Harassment, Public Order, Theft, Assault, or Breach of Privacy), where available.
Published: 4 November 2026
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information: For each financial year (1 April to 31 March) from 2018/19 to 2025/26 inclusive, please provide the number of crimes recorded by your force where the location of the offence was a community pharmacy. By 'community pharmacy' I mean a retail pharmacy or chemist premises dispensing NHS prescriptions in the community (e.g. high-street, village and health-centre pharmacies), excluding hospital pharmacies. For each year, please state how many of these crimes had each Home Office outcome type recorded (e.g. charged/summonsed, out-of-court disposal, evidential difficulties, investigation complete, no suspect identified). Please also break the figures down by the following offence categories, using Home Office offence classifications: Shoplifting Other theft (including theft from the person and theft by employee) Burglary (business and community) Robbery Violence against the person, split into (a) with injury and (b) without injury Stalking and harassment Public order offences Criminal damage and arson Drug offences Possession of weapons Fraud and forgery, where recorded by your force, including forged prescriptions All other offences Please provide the data in Excel or CSV format, with financial years as columns and offence categories as rows. Please do not suppress small numbers unless you can justify it under a specific exemption.
Published: 4 November 2026
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Freedom of Information request - communications offences: arrests, interviews and outcomes, 2017-2025 Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following aggregate information for your force, for each calendar year 2017 to 2025 (or financial year, if that is how the data are held - please say which), separately for each of these offences: (i) Communications Act 2003 s127; (ii) Malicious Communications Act 1988 s1; (iii) Online Safety Act 2023 s179; (iv) Online Safety Act 2023 s181. 1. Number of arrests (arrest events) where the offence was a reason for arrest; and, if readily available, the number of unique individuals arrested. 2. Number of voluntary interviews (interviews under caution without arrest), if recorded. 3. Number of charges or summonses (Home Office outcome type 1), counted by the year the charge was made. 4. Number of crimes resulting in: cautions (outcome types 2-3), community resolutions (8), and no further action (outcome types 9-21 combined is acceptable). 5. Whether any of the above counts are affected by changes in your IT/recording systems (e.g. a records-system migration) or recording procedures during 2017-2025, and if so, when. Definitions: please count arrest events, not crimes; please do not convert arrests into charges or vice versa. If an event involved more than one of the listed offences, please count it under each (and tell me if this applies). If any offence is not separately identifiable in your systems (for example s179/s181 recorded only under the Home Office 8R classification), please say so and provide the closest available breakdown.
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
