FOI 620-2025 / June 2025 / Squatting

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 620-2025

I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 11^th June 2025 as follows:

For 2024:

Q1 How many instances of squatting reported to your police force:

1. In residential properties/ land
2. In commercial properties/ land

For 2023:

Q2 How many instances of squatting reported to your police force:

1. In residential properties/ land
2. In commercial properties/ land

For 2022:

Q1 How many instances of squatting reported to your police force:

1. In residential properties/ land
2. In commercial properties/ land

Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.

Response: The requested information is not centrally recorded and is therefore not held in a readily retrievable format. There is no call description or incident disposal code to identify reports of squatting. In order to provide a response to the request it would be necessary to manually review all incidents logs recorded in the specified period. As you will appreciate this would take an inordinate amount of time and would be above the amount to which we are legally required to respond, i.e. the work required to locate, retrieve, and record the requested information exceeds the ‘appropriate level’ 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 request.

In accordance with Section 16 of the Act, I have a duty to provide advice and assistance; however, due to the volume of records that would need to be individually reviewed, I am unable to suggest a way to reduce the request into one that could be managed within the fees limit.

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

[email protected]