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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: FOI-350-2023
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 31st March 2023 as follows:
I sent a version of this FoI in January, and I have since been advised that I should have used different crime codes.
Previously, I asked for "Home Office counting rules as 97/01 "causing, permitting or failing to prevent unnecessary suffering of a protected animal" where the protected animal in question was a) a swan, b) a goose or c) a duck.
Revised request:
tell me how many times your police force recorded the crime codes 190/00 wild birds under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 or other codes 108/00, 108/01, 108/02, 108/14, 108/29, 108/34 and 97/01 where the free-text field indicates that the animal in question was a) a swan, b) a goose or c) a duck.
Please provide a breakdown of the total by year and by type of bird.
Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in providing the response to your request and for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.
Q1 response: Searches were conducted for all crimes, recorded during the stated period, under the above stated codes. The resulting records were then reviewed to determine where the animal in question was a swan, goose or duck. I can advise that no records were located which fall within the scope of your request and our response is; therefore, ‘no information held’.
Q2 response: Not applicable
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