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Provides information on the numbers of specific Wildlife Crime trained officers currently within Essex Police. Also provides the numbers of Wildlife and Livestock Worrying related offences and incidents recorded by Essex Police between August 2023 and October 2024.

Confirmed that a search on the Athena crime recording system on the Full Offence Title “Hunting Act 2004” plus a keyword search on the Modus Operandi (MO) Field for the phrases “illegal hunt”, “hunt” and “hunting” returned no results. Provided links to Essex Police publications on Wildlife Crime and Animal Crime.

Confirmed that Essex Police does not ‘screen out’ crimes or investigations or any other target around the filing down of investigations.

Cancelled crime report statistics for rape and historic sexual abuse crimes from March 2017 to September 2020.

Data on Non-Crime Hate Incidents recorded by Essex Police between January 2019 and June 2026. Includes breakdowns by month, location and hate type.

Provided the number of Homicides in the 12 months to March 2022 broken down by the age of the victim.

Provided the COP APP guidance together with link to NDM and Code of Ethics with links to specific policies on crime and incident reporting referencing the NSIR and Home Office Annual Data Return - including Equality & Individual Needs in custody; references to Transgender Detainees and Transgender Staff;

Sharing data is important to us and to the public, we want to advise you of methods to obtain annual Essex Police Data statistics yourself.

Essex Police have recorded one offence of this type between April 2015 and May 2025. Disclosed the recorded Offence Title and Outcome Type.

Provides the numbers of Production of Cannabis investigations carried out by Essex Police in 2023 and 2024.