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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 1087-2023
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 11th December 2023 as follows:
Q1. Between 1 January 2021 and 27 November 2023, has your force investigated:
014/01 – Administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion.
014/02 – Procuring drugs etc to cause abortion.
Please provide a Yes/No answer
Q2. If the answer to Q1 is “yes”, please provide the total number of times your force has investigated a case of 014/01 – Administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion or 014/02 – Procuring drugs etc to cause abortion.
Q3. If the answer to Q1 is “yes”, between 1 January 2021 and 27 November 2023, has your force requested a woman hand over data from a menstrual tracking app to aid your investigation?
Q4. If the answer to Q3 is ‘yes”, please will you provide the name of the menstrual tracking apps?
Q5. If the answer to Q1 is “yes”, between 1 January 2021 and 27 November 2023, has your force requested a menstrual tracking app (such as Flo or FEMM) share a woman’s data with you to aid your investigation?
Q6: If the answer to Q5 is “yes”, please will you provide the name of the menstrual tracking apps?
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.
Q1 response: Searches were conducted for all offences of Procuring Illegal Abortion (codes 14/01 and 14/02), recorded during the period 1st January 2021 and 27th November 2023. I can advise that the searches did not return any results and our response is therefore ‘no’.
Q2 to Q6 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