Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')
As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.
You asked:
1. Please could you tell me the number of dog thefts recorded by police by individual month, for the calendar years 2018, 2019 and 2020 (to the latest month available).
2. Could you also please tell me the number of outcomes for dog thefts recorded in the calendar years 2018, 2019 and 2020, and the outcome group. This would include: charged/summons, evidential difficulties (suspect identified; victim supports action), evidential difficulties (victim does not support action), further investigation not in the public interest, investigation complete (no suspect identified), not yet assigned an outcome, out of court (informal), out of court (formal), prosecution prevented or not in the public interest), responsibility for further investigation transferred to another body, taken into consideration.
3. If available, could you also please provide a count of dog thefts by breed in each year from 2018 to 2020.
In Response:
Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.
I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.
1&3. With regards to these points the below is applicable.
As the information you have requested is accessible by other means I have not provided you with a copy of the information and will rely on Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You should therefore consider this a refusal for your request.
I have provided an explanation to this exemption below.
Section 21 (1) - Information accessible by other means
Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant is exempt information.
The information requested is freely available via the Northumbria Police Disclosure Log. FOI’s 001/21 and 138/21 refer.
2.
|
Outcome |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|
Charge/Summons |
3 |
2 |
0 |
|
Evidential difficulties |
8 |
10 |
25 |
|
Investigation complete - no suspect identified |
36 |
37 |
45 |
|
Investigation not in public interest |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Not in public interest (police) |
1 |
2 |
4 |
|
Not stated |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Victim declines or is unable to identify suspect |
4 |
0 |
9 |
|
Victim does not support police action |
4 |
3 |
12 |
