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Confirmed that Essex Police has not entered a collaboration agreement to establish a Forensic Capability Network. Also confirmed that Essex Police will be using such a process in the future to procure such services.

Fingerprint impressions on exhibits are examined, developed and imaged by Fingerprint Enhancement Labs. These follow relevant Home Office publications such as the Fingerprint Development Handbook (2005) and the Fingermark Visualisation Manual (2014).

Essex Police are not able to accurately extract the level of detail required from their current systems as conviction data is not recorded on the Athena custody system. Provided numbers of total offences and total charges for 2016 to 2021 where a Victim Vulnerability Marker for "Disability" was recorded.

Provided number of thefts from vehicles per year for 14 Essex crime location districts from 2015 to 2020.

Confirmed that Essex Police use the Interim Exemption Scheme for dogs assessed by a Dog Legislation Officer as a banned breed.

Essex Police are unable to accurately extract data on cases of Theft From the Person or Residential Burglary that resulted in an arrest or conviction as this would require a manual trawl of all cases to check for what crime the suspect was originally arrested.

Provided numbers of offences disposed of by fixed penalty only (including fines and conditional offers) by month for 11 offence types between November 2016 and November 2021.

Initial response correct as of 31/03/2021 gave the count of crimes for Essex under the Home Office offence codes 88/1, 88/2 and 71/17 for the years 2019 and 2020.

Provided number of Account Freezing Orders in Essex by year for 2018 to 2021 for accounts held by people over 18.

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Incident statistics broken down by Incident Type and Calendar Year from 2010 to 2021.