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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: FOI-195-2023
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 16th February 2023 as follows:
Q1. For the period 1st July 2021 to 31st December 2021 can you please tell me how many drone/UAV related calls per month were received and logged by Warwickshire Police, with a breakdown of the specific nature of each call.
Q2. Similarly for the period 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022 can you please tell me how many drone/UAV related calls per month were received and logged by Warwickshire Police, with a breakdown of the specific nature of each call.
Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in providing the response to your request and for any inconvenience this may have caused you. I can advise that the requested information is held and please find our response set out below.
When reviewing the information, please note that it was obtained by searching the Command and Control System for incidents containing the keyword ‘Drone’ and/or ‘UAV’ during the stated periods. The resulting records have then been examined to remove any false positives. Please note that the information provided excludes instances where the police may have requested/mentioned drones in relation to an incident (e.g. in relation to a missing person incident) and incidents which do not concern drone usage (e.g. where a drone was mentioned as stolen).
It is important to note that, should there be further relevant incidents, but where none of the stated keywords are mentioned, then these would not be captured within the response. For this reason, any information received by way of a keyword search cannot be assumed to be accurate and should be treated with caution.
Response:
Month |
2021 |
2022 |
Grand Total |
Jan |
n/a |
9 |
9 |
Feb |
n/a |
3 |
3 |
Mar |
n/a |
3 |
3 |
Apr |
n/a |
4 |
4 |
May |
n/a |
10 |
10 |
Jun |
n/a |
12 |
12 |
Jul |
11 |
6 |
17 |
Aug |
6 |
5 |
11 |
Sep |
10 |
9 |
19 |
Oct |
6 |
3 |
9 |
Nov |
7 |
3 |
10 |
Dec |
2 |
2 |
4 |
Grand Total |
42 |
69 |
111 |
2021 (July to December) |
A DRONE WAS HOVERING OVER THE HOUSE |
CONCERN REGARDING DRONE FLYING AROUND |
CONCERN REGARDING DRONE FLYING AROUND WITH CAMERA ON IT |
DRONE FLYING IN AREA |
DRONE HOVERING OUTSIDE WINDOW |
DRONE NUISANCE AND FLYING ABOVE GARDEN |
INF ADVISED THAT THERE WAS A DRONE SIGHTED IN AREA |
INF ADVISING THAT A DRONE HAS JUST FLOWN LOW OVER BACK GARDEN |
INF REPORTING A DRONE SEEN FLYING OVER ADDRESS |
INF REPORTING A DRONE THAT HAS BEEN OPERATING OVER THE AREA OF THEIR HOME |
INF REPORTING SOMEONE FLYING A DRONE OVER THEIR PROPERTY |
INF REPORTS INDIVIDUAL HAS BEEN FLYING A DRONE OVER THE GARDENS |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
ISSUE WITH USER FLYING A DRONE |
REPORT DRONE FLYING AND FILMING IN PUBLIC AREA |
REPORT OF A DRONE FLYING OVER THE AREA |
REPORT OF SOMEONE FLYING A DRONE OVER THE HOUSE |
REPORTED DRONE FLYING AND HOVERING OVER A PROPERTY |
REPORTING A DRONE FLYING |
REPORTING DRONE WAS BEING FLOWN NEAR PRIVATE PROPERTIES |
REPORTING DRONE WITH CAMERA FLOWN OVER AREA |
REPORTING INDIVIDUALS FLYING DRONE CLOSE TO CLOSE TO ADDRESS |
REPORTING INDIVIDUALS USING DRONE TO FILM THEIR ACTIONS |
REPORTING SAW A DRONE BEING FLOWN OVER THEIR HOUSE |
STATED DRONE AROUND GARDEN |
STATED DRONE WAS OUTSIDE NEXT TO WINDOW |
STATING DRONE AROUND PROPERTIES AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS |
STATING DRONE BEING FLOWN IN AREA SHOULD NO BEEN FLOWN INTO |
STATING DRONE BEING FLOWN IN AREA SHOULD NO BEEN FLOWN INTO |
STATING DRONE BEING FLOWN IN AREA SHOULD NOT BEEN FLOWN INTO |
STATING DRONE HOVERING AROUND PROPERTY |
STATING INDIVIDUAL FLYING DRONES OVER GARDEN |
THE DRONE APPEARED OVER THE ROOF OF THE INFORMANT'S PROPERTY |
2022 |
BELIEVES SOMEONE HAS FLOWN A DRONE AROUND PREMISES |
DRONE FLYING OVER HOUSES |
INDIVIDUAL FLYING A DRONE |
INDIVIDUALS FLYING DRONES |
INF REPORTING A DRONE FLYING OVER THE GARDENS |
INF STATING DRONE FILMING PEOPLE |
INF STATING INDIVIDUAL FLYING DRONE AROUND PUBLIC AREA |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
INFORMING POLICE THAT THEY WILL BE USING A DRONE |
REORTING DRONE WAS BEING FLOWN IN AREA THEY WERE |
REPORT INDIVIDUAL FLYING A DRONE IN GARDEN |
REPORT OF DRONE FLYING IN AREA |
REPORT OF DRONES SEEN ABOVE HOUSE AND NEARBY AREA |
REPORT OF INDIVIDUAL FLYING DRONE OVER PREMISES |
REPORTED DRONE HOVERING OVER PROPERTY |
REPORTED IN PUBLIC AREA AND INDIVIDUAL WAS FLYING A DRONE |
REPORTED SOMEONE HAS FILMED STREET AND PREMISES WITH DRONE |
REPORTING A DRONE FLYING OUTSIDE WINDOW |
REPORTING A DRONE SEEN AROUND PREMISES |
REPORTING A DRONE THAT IS HOVERING NEAR PROPERTIES |
REPORTING A DRONE WAS FLYING OVERHEAD |
REPORTING DRONE AROUND PROPERTY NEAR WINDOWS |
REPORTING DRONE BEING FLOWN IN AREA AND OVER ADDRESS |
REPORTING DRONE BEING FLOWN OVER GARDEN |
REPORTING DRONE BEING FLOWN OVER HOUSE |
REPORTING DRONE BEING FLOWN OVER PBLIC AREA AND THEIR PROPERTY |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING AROUND PROPERTY |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING AROUND THE AREA |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING NEAR GARDEN |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING NEAR PROPERTY |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING OVER GARDEN |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING OVER GARDEN |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING OVER GARDEN AND SURROUNDING AREA |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING OVER HOUSE |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING OVER HOUSE |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING OVER SURROUNDING AREA |
REPORTING DRONE FLYING TOO HIGH AND RISK IN FLIGHTPATH |
REPORTING DRONE HOVERING OVER GARDEN AND NEARBY AREA |
REPORTING DRONE IN AREA THEY WERE |
REPORTING DRONE LOW OVER GARDEN |
REPORTING DRONE NEAR TO PREMISE |
REPORTING INDIVIDUAL FLYING A DRONE IN AREA |
REPORTING INDIVIDUAL FLYING A DRONE OVER PROPERTY |
REPORTING INDIVIDUAL FLYING A DRONE OVER THE AREA |
REPORTING INDIVIDUAL FLYING DRONE NEAR PEOPLE |
REPORTING INDIVIDUAL FLYING DRONE ON LAND |
REPORTING INDIVIDUAL FLYING DRONE OVER THEIR PROPERTY |
REPORTING INDIVIDUALS FLYING DRONE OVER OTHERS PROPERTY |
REPORTING PEOPLE FLYING DRONES IN GARDEN |
REPORTING PEOPLE IN UNUSED GROUNDS FLYING DRONES |
REPORTING SOMEONE IS FLYING DRONE NEAR TO THEIR PREMISES |
SAW A DRONE OVER THE ADDRESS |
STATES INDIVIDUAL FLEW DRONE NEAR ADDRESS |
STATING DRONE BEING FLOWN OVER HOUSES AND GARDENS |
STATING DRONE FLYING LOW AROUND PROPERTY |
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
Your attention is drawn to the below which details your right of complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write or email the Freedom of Information Unit quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB