FOI 325-2025 / Mar 2025 / Car meets
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 325-2025
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 14th March 2025 as follows:
- How many reports of illegal car meets were made between:
January 2024 - January 2025
January 2023 - January 2024
January 2022 - January 2023
January 2021 - January 2022
January 2020 - January 2021
2. Of these reports how many people were arrested or fined in connection with these car meet-ups?
January 2024 - January 2025
January 2023 - January 2024
January 2022 - January 2023
January 2021 - January 2022
January 2020 - January 2021
- Please provide a breakdown of where illegal car meet-ups are most commonly reported, including specific cities, towns, or roadways.
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.
Response: Please be advised that the requested information is not held in a readily retrievable format. There is no specific incident type for ‘car meets’ and no marker or identifier within the Command and Control System to locate records where a car meet is relevant. Keyword searches are not carried out routinely as they will only bring back records where any chosen keyword(s) is present within the free text of the log of an incident. Therefore, in the event that the circumstances are relevant, but where the exact keyword(s) has not been used to describe the situation, then these would not be picked up within a search. Therefore, it would be necessary to review all relevant incident types relating to Road and ASB reports on an individual basis to answer Q1. Further work would then be required to determine the information requested at Q2 and Q3, which would involve cross referencing with other systems. Therefore, for the reasons set out above, the work involved in providing a response you your request would be above the amount to which we are legally required to respond ie, the work involved in locating, retrieving and recording the information requested for exceeds the cost threshold (£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 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, where possible, to refine your request; however, due to the volume of records that would need to be manually reviewed, I am unable to suggest a way to do this 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