Fly-Tipping Statistics 2023-2024
Publication Number: 1541
FOI Number: 19936
Information Request
- How many incidents of illegal dumping of rubbish (also commonly known as fly dumping or fly tipping) occurred within the jurisdiction of your force’s authority last year (i.e. 2023)
- How many incidents of illegal dumping of rubbish (also commonly known as fly dumping or fly tipping) occurred within the jurisdiction of your force’s authority have occurred since the beginning of 2024?
- How many arrests were made by your police force for illegal dumping of rubbish (also commonly known as fly dumping or fly tipping) last year (i.e. 2023)
- How many arrests were made by your police force for illegal dumping of rubbish (also commonly known as fly dumping or fly tipping) since the beginning of 2024
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police does hold information relating to all your request.
Second Duty – See below
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Essex Police can report as follows:
Caveat: The data is correct as at 12/04/2024.
Please note, the date parameters for this response are from 01/01/2023 to 29/02/2024.
How many incidents of illegal dumping of rubbish (also commonly known as fly dumping or fly tipping) occurred within the jurisdiction of your force’s authority last year (i.e. 2023)
How many incidents of illegal dumping of rubbish (also commonly known as fly dumping or fly tipping) occurred within the jurisdiction of your force’s authority have occurred since the beginning of 2024?
Please see the below table containing incident data is where the “Final Call Type” field is “Flytipping”.
|
Year / Month |
January |
February |
March |
April |
May |
June |
July |
August |
September |
October |
November |
December |
|
2023 |
17 |
19 |
22 |
21 |
22 |
8 |
21 |
17 |
28 |
14 |
9 |
11 |
|
2024 |
12 |
28 |
How many arrests were made by your police force for illegal dumping of rubbish (also commonly known as fly dumping or fly tipping) last year (i.e. 2023)
How many arrests were made by your police force for illegal dumping of rubbish (also commonly known as fly dumping or fly tipping) since the beginning of 2024
Please see the below table which contains a count of custody reference numbers where the “Arrest Circumstances” field is “fly tipping” (free text search within the arrest circumstances field).
|
Year / Month |
January |
February |
March |
April |
May |
June |
July |
August |
September |
October |
November |
December |
|
2023 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
2024 |
1 |
1 |
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Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.