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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 179-2024
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 12th February 2024, as follows:
Please provide the following information, from 2015 to the present day. Please provide monthly data on:
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.
Response: Please be advised that the requested information in relation to domestic abuse cases that were referred to domestic abuse support services, and which support services this involved, is not centrally recorded and is therefore not held in a readily retrievable format. Whilst the crime recording system does contain a ‘referrals’ field, referrals documented in this section are generally made for a safeguarding purpose. Furthermore, this is not a mandatory field and so is often not completed. As such there is no specific field within an investigation to record when a support service has been contacted as referrals of this nature are made on a case-by-case basis, for example when the victim consents or asks us to make contact, and details would be documented within the investigation report as free text. Therefore, in order to determine the number of domestic abuse related investigations which mention referrals to any support service, it would be necessary to manually review each and every investigation on an individual basis. As you will appreciate, this would involve and inordinate amount of records and would therefore exceed the amount to which we are legally required to respond, i.e., the cost of locating and retrieving the information exceeds the ‘appropriate level’, as stated in the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004. For Police forces in the UK, the "appropriate limit" is up to 18 hours of work on one request.
In accordance with section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter is a Refusal Notice for this element of your request.
In accordance with Section 16 of the Act, I have a duty to provide advice and assistance in relation to refining your request; however, due to the volume of records which would need to be examined, I am unable to suggest a way to revise these elements of your request into one which could be managed within the fees limit.
However, I can advise that it may be possible to undertake a search to determine if any information is held in relation to Q3 of your request.
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