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Custody - 1380/19

Date Responded 13 November 2019

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. What is the average cost of keeping someone in the cells for 12 hours?
  2. What is the average cost of keeping someone in the cells for 24 hours?
  3. What food options are available to those in the cells? Please specify the foods available throughout the day including for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as any snacks.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the both the Finance and Custody Departments of Northumbria Police.  I can confirm that the information you have requested is held, in part, by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

1 & 2. No information held. Northumbria police neither collate/cost this information and do not hold an ‘average’ figure.

Meals

Snacks

Drinks

All Day breakfast

Kellogg’s Cornflakes cereal pot

Coffee

Vegetarian All Day breakfast

Frosties cereal milk bar

Tea

Porridge

Nestle Curiously cinnamon cereal bar

Hot Chocolate

Tuna Pasta Bake

 

Water

Bolognese Pasta bake

 

 

Chicken Casserole

 

 

Beef Lasagne

 

 

Cottage Pie

 

 

Beef Chilli with Rice

 

 

Vegetable Chilli with Rice

 

 

Sweet & Sour Chicken with Rice

 

 

Chicken Tikka Curry with Rice

 

 

Vegetable Curry with Rice

 

 

Beans and Potato Wedges

 

 

Pilau Rice

 

 

Lamb Hotpot

 

 

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

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