Joint foi responses 2016 Request Reference

(i) Your equality impact assessment(s) concerning the use of spit hoods;

(ii) Guidance and training documents issued to officers concerning the use of spit hoods;

(iii) Minutes of meetings at which the use of spit hoods was discussed;

(iv) Risk assessments regarding the use of spit hoods;

(v) Internal and external correspondence regarding the use of spit hoods.

(i) Confirm the rationale for this position and provide any documents recording the same;

(ii) Provide any documents which were considered in the course of reaching this decision e.g. risk assessments, expert advice, etc;

(iii) Provide minutes of meetings at which the decision not to authorise the use of spit hoods was discussed;

(iv) Provide documents detailing training provided to your officers on the techniques they should employ to mitigate the risk of spitting;

(v) Internal and external correspondence regarding the decision not to use of spit hoods.

We appreciate the issues and difficulties regarding extracting the data originally sought. However, following further inquiries, colleagues in another police force, using FoI section 16 (advise & assist) have advised how similar information might be more efficiently obtained. As a result I have revised my question as follows and added a supplementary question. This is as follows -

Until 2013 the Home Office reported annually on firearm and shotgun certificate revocations, breaking down this information by police force areas. The available data shows the following:

Suffolk Police, firearm and shotgun license revocations

Year 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16

Firearms 4 7 8 3

Shotguns 15 29 28 16

Our question now asks if the data for the 3 most recent years 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 could be provided and, for the last year only, how many of the licence revocations came about as a result of a criminal offence (charged/convicted) by the licensee.

- What department issues licence's for the cultivation of cannabis.

- How many licence have been issued from 2000 - 2016.

- Who was said licences issued too.

- Was the licence for medical or research purposes.

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We are working on a research project in the Mental Health Division at the University of Central Lancashire into the use of TASERs by the police. In particular we would like to gain information regarding the following please:

1. How many incidents of TASER use by Police officers were there:

a. For each year in the period 2004-2016 by category of deployment (Drawn, Red dot, Arced, Discharged)?

b. Of these, how many were used against an individual who displayed mental health or psychological issues?

2. For each year (in the period 2004-2016), how many callouts were made for the purpose of a Section 136 (MHA 1983) removal to a place of safety? Of this, how many callouts involved the use of a TASER?

3. For each year (in the period 2004-2016), how many callouts involved the use of TASER:

a. At secure psychiatric units and

b. other psychiatric units?

In compliance with s45 Code of Practice (datasets) we should also be grateful if you would send any datasets in an electronic format that can be used by us and grant us a licence to use them.

This request relates to Retired Police Officers only.

I require the information for the period 30th September 2006 to 31st December 2006.

Q1. Has your authority used the above ‘Order’ when paying redundancy payments to retired police officers?

Q2. If so, could you please provide me with the number of retired police officers that have received redundancy payments under this ‘Order’.
If to provide the numbers will exceed the cost limit, then please just confirm or otherwise that you have engaged the above order for payments of this type.

I would like to add a follow up to my previous request about the use of Tasers. Could you please also include the age of the person it was used on.

I am emailing to make a request for answers to my following questions under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

1. What was the latest price paid per ream (500 sheets) of standard white copier paper (80 gsm or equivalent)?

2. If the answer to question 1. is not representative of a usual price paid, what is the average price paid per ream of copier paper during financial year 2015/16?

3. How many reams of copy paper were purchased during the 2015/16 financial year?

a) How many times have spit hoods been used by officers on a member of the public

b) Please provide a breakdown giving (i) the month of the incident, (ii) the gender of the hooded individual, (iii) the ethnicity of the individual, (iv) the alleged offence of the hooded individual, (v) the reason given for the use of the hood.

2. a) and b) Please provide the same information for the full calendar year 2015.

If my request is refused, either in whole or in part, please make specific reference to exemptions under the FOIA.

2) Total number of 'first instance' warrants (issued under s.1 of the Magistrates Court Act) requested/applied by your force

3) Total number of arrest warrants requested/applied by your force under any other section of any other Act, specifying the Act/section enabling the warrant to be issued.

The time frame for questions 1 to 3 is the calendar years 2014, 2015 and 2016 (to-date). For each type of warrant please break down the data by nationality of the individual and the offence committed.

4) Total number of warrants applied/requested by your force that are outstanding, to be broken down by type of warrant, year of issue, nationality of the individual and offence.

5) Total number of outstanding 'wanted' individuals (i.e. including those wanted without warrants), to be broken down by: whether they are wanted with or without warrant, year of circulation as wanted, nationality and offence.

For part 5) of my request please confirm whether your force is able to extract nation-wide data or if it is only able to access data on individuals wanted by your force. Please could you therefore put part 5) on hold until you are able to respond to this?

[*For the avoidance of doubt, I request complaints made against officers, PCSOs, special constables, police staff and contractors to the force - either as direct employees or through employment agencies]

For each case please state if possible:

Whether the complainant was a victim of crime, witness to crime, or other category

The gender and rank or grade of the officer or staff member

The nature of the alleged offence and any context if possible [whether it be harassing emails, sending inappropriate text messages, rape, indecent assault, indecent images etc].

The outcome of each investigation i.e. charges [pls state where convicted and provide name of the officer if possible], suspension, whether referred to the IPCC, dismissed, suspended, resigned, transferred etc

Please could you provide answers to the following questions;

1. Could you please confirm the typical data Communications technology installed on-board Police Vehicles. I am particularly interested in the squad cars, motorway vehicles and Command Units.

2. What is (are) the purpose(s) of the communications technology, for example; GPS tracking of appliance, Telematics, On-Board Diagnostics, Status update, Vehicle registration look up, suspect look up, communicating with other vehicles/back to base, event-based streaming of video etc?

3. Do you currently make use of CCTV and/or dash cameras on police vehicles?

4. Do you currently use body cameras or body sensors to help protect police from harm / get better visuals / evidence on the incident? If not, do you plan to utilise this technology in the future?

5. Do the units make use of the TETRA network or standard mobile communications?

6. Any particular police specifications/standards that your on-board data equipment need to comply with? ISO standards as an example?

7. If the TETRA network is being used, is the hardware compatible with standard mobile communications technology? If not, can the unit(s) be updated or do they need to be replaced entirely to facilitate the change to mobile communications.

8. Could you please confirm the model of the communications unit(s) being used and the supplier(s) of those units?

9. Could you confirm the contract terms these units have been bought on – was this a one-off CAPEX charge or a mixture of CAPEX and OPEX?

10. Please could you confirm the cost of the units, both CAPEX and OPEX?

11. Could you please confirm who installs and maintains the units?

12. Could you confirm when the current contract term(s) come to an end?

13. Could you please confirm who within the Police Department is responsible for procuring the units?

Please provide a breakdown for me giving the month and year of each incident, and if possible the gender of the officer.

- Annul Plan/Strategy Plan 2017

For example, are victims advised not to get therapy during court proceedings in case it affects or is seen to affect their evidence?

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide details of any policy or guidance Norfolk Police gives its officers on what advice they should give victims of crime about getting therapy during ongoing proceedings.

A. Lift Service and Maintenance

B. Air Conditioning and Ventilation Servicing and Maintenance

C. Cleaning and Janitorial

D. Mechanical And Electrical Maintenance

E. Property Maintenance And Day To Day Repairs

In regards to the types of contracts I have displayed above can you please send the Council’s primary contracts? Or can you please send me the contract that are above £1000.

Also, so that I understand the information you have provided to me please state information if the Council doesn’t have any contract I have stated within this request.

1. Contract Type – Please use the list I have provided above

2. Existing Supplier – Please state the supplier for each contract

3. Annual Spend- Please can you provide me with the spend for each individual supplier

4. Contract Duration- please note if there are any extensions period available and if so what?

5. Contract Start

6. Contract Expiry

7. Contract Review

8. Contract Description- a small description of the type of services included within each contract.

9. Number of sites covered for each contract e.g. the Council may have a maintenance agreement with a supplier that covers several sites/buildings.

10. Can you also send me the contact details of the person within the Council that is responsible for each one of these contract your have submitted.

Please include at a minimum the number plate, vehicle make and model in addition to base station and team the vehicle is used by.

- If not, has it ever used them in the past, or does it have any plans to use them in the future?

- If so, how many times have spit hoods/guards been used by your force in the last five years?

- How old were the people they were used on?

- How many of these people have been identified, either before or since, as suffering from mental health problems?

• What were they suspended for?

• What was the total cost of the suspensions?

In our requests listed below we seek both national and local information e.g. national guidance and local guidance on use of social media intelligence.

1. For the time period 1.1.2015 to 1.10.2016

Please provide all information relating to guidance / policy / training on the obtaining, use, analysis, retention and destruction of:

a. SOCMINT: Social media intelligence

And/or

And/or

Please provide all information including: all related policies, training documents, codes of practice. Please include all information related to acquisition, use, retention, storage and destruction. If you use different terminology to refer to social media information and / or open source intelligence please note that our request is directed at that.

2. For the time period 1.1.2015 to 1.10.2016

Please provide all information relating to statutory guidance / guidance / policy / training on the use of fake profiles by the police on social media, including but not limited to Twitter and Facebook. Please include all information related to acquisition, use, retention, storage and destruction of information via this technique.

3. For the time period 1.1.2015 to 1.10.2016

Please provide all information relating to statutory guidance / guidance / policy / training on the use of SOCMINT and OSINT used for the purpose of profile building by the police including but not limited to Twitter and Facebook. Please include all information related to acquisition, use, retention, storage and destruction.

4. For the time period 1.1.2015 to 1.10.2016

Please provide all information relating to statutory guidance / guidance / policy / training on the recording, storing and use of OSINT (Open Source Intelligence). Please include all information related to acquisition, use, retention, storage and destruction.

5. Please provide information on whether you have a head of digital / lead on digital or the equivalent appointed.