Drones - 713/18

Date Responded 09 August 2018

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:

For the period 1st April 2018 to 30th June 2018 can you please tell me how many drone/UAV related calls have been received by Northumbria Police, with a breakdown of the nature of the incident, any action taken, and the month the call was received.

In Response:

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

A search of the full incident description was carried out using the following key words:

Drone

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

With the above in mine, I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

Nature of incident	April	May	June
Information Only	8	2	8
Nuisance/Suspicious flying	4	7	13
Theft of drone	2	0	2
Total	14	9	23

Action taken	Apr	May	Jun
Area checked	3	3	1
Caller advised	1	2	5
Crime created	2	0	2
Logged for information	8	2	13
Officer attended and drone operator spoken to	0	2	2
Total	14	9	23

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.

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