Freedom of information (FOI) releases from City of London Police

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request information about speeding offences detected by City of London Police during the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025. For each of the following posted speed limits - 20 mph, 30 mph, 40 mph, 50 mph, 60 mph and 70 mph - please provide: 1. The lowest vehicle speed recorded at which enforcement action was taken for exceeding that particular speed limit. 1. The corresponding speed limit and recorded speed (for example, 31 mph in a 30 mph limit). 1. The number of such cases, if more than one vehicle was recorded at the lowest speed. 1. The type of enforcement action taken in each case, for example: * Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP); * Fixed Penalty Notice; * speed awareness course; * summons/prosecution; or * other formal enforcement action. 1. Where available, the method by which the offence was detected (for example, fixed camera, average-speed camera, mobile camera or police officer). I am specifically interested in the lowest actual recorded speeds at which enforcement action was taken, rather than the force's normal enforcement threshold or the NPCC recommended enforcement threshold. For example, if a driver was formally penalised or prosecuted for travelling at 31 mph in a 30 mph limit, I would like this to be included. If your records distinguish between the speed recorded by the enforcement device and the speed used for enforcement after any applicable adjustment, please provide both figures.

    Published: 19 October 2026

  5. Under the FOI Aact, for each financial year 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 please provide the following: A count of sexual offences by taxi and PVH drivers for the last four financial years (2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26). Can each year's statistics please be broken down by the offence and outcome. eg 2025/26 Exposure - no further action Exposure - fixed penalty notice Sexual activity child under 16 - charge Sexual activity child under 16 - no further action 2024/25 Rape of a female aged over 16 - charge Rape of a female aged over 16 - no further action Sexual activity child under 16 - charge --

    Published: 19 October 2026

  6. Under the FOI Act, please provide me with the number of antisocial behaviour incidents including 'quad bike', 'bike', 'scrambler' and 'moped' in offence summary in each of 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26? For each year, please provide a breakdown for the total number of references in antisocial behaviour incident offence summaries of each: 'quad bike', 'bike', 'scrambler' and 'moped' In 2025/26, out of the number of antisocial behaviour incidents including 'quad bike', 'bike', 'scrambler' and 'moped' in offence summary, please provide me the number which resulted in a police pursuit. Thank you, Alex Ross -- Alex Ross

    Published: 19 October 2026

  7. I request the following information relating to stop and search encounters carried out by City of London Police. For each calendar year from 2015 to 2025, or the most recent period for which data are available, please provide the number of stop and search encounters and, where available, the percentage that each category represents of all stop and search encounters in that calendar year, broken down by: * sex * age group * ethnic group * reason/legal power for search (e.g. Section 1 PACE 1984, Section 23 Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, Section 60 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, or other power used) * outcome of the search. Please provide outcome categories as recorded within the stop and search dataset and, where possible, map them to the categories listed below: * no further action * arrest * summons/charged by post * penalty notice for disorder * caution * community resolution * other final-outcome categories recorded within the data. 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 not available, financial-year data covering the same period would be acceptable. If any part of this request exceeds the appropriate cost limit under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide any information that can be disclosed within the limit and advise how the remaining request might be refined.

    Published: 19 October 2026

  8. I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide the number of people (drivers and passengers) issued with a fixed penalty notice or other enforcement notice for failing to wear a seatbelt in a motor vehicle, for each of the following calendar years: * 2016 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2020 * 2021 * 2022 * 2023 * 2024 * 2025 If the information is recorded as the number of offences/notices rather than the number of individuals, please provide that figure instead. I am only requesting the total figure for each year and do not require any further breakdown. If you can't provide the full 10 years, please provide the last 3 years.

    Published: 15 October 2026

  9. REQUEST 1: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What would you like to know?: Please provide the following aggregate figures for recorded crimes involving a stolen cat in your force area from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2023: 1. How many cat-theft crimes were recorded in each month from January 2019 to December 2023? Please use the date the crime was recorded. 2. For each year, how many were recorded in each theft-location category? Please use your existing categories. 3. For each year, how many had each recorded crime outcome? Please use your existing outcome categories. 4. For each year, what were the totals by breed/type and, separately, by sex of the cat? Please include unknown or unrecorded categories where available. Please include cat thefts recorded under burglary or robbery as well as theft, where readily identifiable. Aggregate tables are sufficient. Please state if a figure is unavailable and whether the breed and sex totals count cats or crimes.

    Published: 15 October 2026

  10. What would you like to know?: 1. The number of recorded crimes committed at pharmacies, for 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026. 2. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, a breakdown of those crimes by offence type (e.g. theft/shoplifting, burglary, robbery, criminal damage, arson, possession of weapons, sexual offences, vehicle offences, assault, public order offences). 3. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, the number of those crimes classified as violent crime. 4. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, the number of crimes at pharmacies specifically involving theft of, or attempted theft of, controlled drugs or damage to controlled drugs storage (e.g. CD cabinets). 5. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, a breakdown of weapons or objects used in crimes committed at pharmacies. 6. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, the outcome of crimes committed at pharmacies, broken down by: no suspect identified, no further action, caution given, charged, other outcome. Definitions used in this request: * "Pharmacy" means community/retail pharmacies only (please exclude hospital pharmacies). * "Crime" means recorded crime under Home Office Crime Recording Rules, not calls for service or incidents that were not recorded as crimes. * "Violent crime" means offences your force classifies under Violence Against the Person. Note on searching: If premises type (e.g. "pharmacy") is not a distinct searchable field in your crime recording system, please state this and explain the method used to identify relevant records (e.g. free-text/address search on terms such as "pharmacy", "chemist", named pharmacy chains). Address searches I'd like checked would be "pharmacy", "pharmacies", "chemist", "chemists" if the premises type of "pharmacy" is not a distinct searchable field in your systems.

    Published: 15 October 2026