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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 636-2024
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 8th July 2024 as follows:
Feb 1 2020 – July 1 2020
Feb 1 2021 – July 1 2021
Feb 1 2022 – July 1 2022
Feb 1 2023 – July 1 2023
Feb 1 2024 – July 1 2024
For example, for Feb 1 2020 – July 1 2020, total of 20 incidents with 4 involving a suspected XL Bully and 2 involving a confirmed XL Bully.
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below. When reviewing the information please note that searches were conducted for all offences under the stated code, recorded from 1st February of each year and up to but not including 1st July of each year (30th June of each year inclusive).
Q1 response:
Month |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
Feb |
12 |
12 |
13 |
11 |
21 |
Mar |
9 |
17 |
17 |
26 |
24 |
Apr |
18 |
27 |
28 |
21 |
30 |
May |
16 |
19 |
30 |
26 |
42 |
Jun |
21 |
17 |
25 |
26 |
31 |
Grand Total |
76 |
92 |
113 |
110 |
148 |
Q2 response: Please be advised that the requested information is not centrally recorded and is therefore not held in a readily retrievable format. There is no field or marker within the crime recording system to easily identify the breed type of a dog. Therefore, in order to provide a response to this element of your request it would be necessary to manually review each and every one of the offences returned for Q1, on an individual basis. At a conservative estimate of 3 minutes per record to review, this would equate to 27 hours of work and therefore the work involved in locating and retrieving the requested information exceeds the cost threshold of £450, which equates to 18 hours work at a standard rate of £25 per hour, as stated in the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.
In accordance with section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter acts as a Refusal Notice for this part of the 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 that would need to be manually reviewed, I am unable to suggest a way in which these elements of your request could be revised to allow the requested information to be retrieved within the fees limit unless you were to reduce the term to, say, one or two years.
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