Anti-Social Behaviour and Incidents Involving Fireworks
Keywords
Anti-Social Behaviour, ASB, Incidents, Logged, Recorded, Reports, Incidents, Fireworks, Seizing, Illegal, Number.
Publication Number
PUB 1354
FOI Reference Number
16216
Request Title
Anti-Social Behaviour Incidents October & November 2019 & 2020
Date Range
2019 to 2020
Information Requested
The number of antisocial behaviour incidents logged by your force which occurred in 2019 and 2020 on the following dates: October 24, October 29, October 31 and November 5.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Part Disclosure
Information Correct as at
05 November 2021
Date of Disclosure
17 December 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 16216 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:
Caveat: The data is correct as at 05 November 2021.
The number of antisocial behaviour incidents logged by your force which occurred in 2019 and 2020 on the following dates: October 24, October 29, October 31 and November 5.
Number of ASB incidents recorded
| Year | Oct-24 |
Oct-29 |
Oct-31 |
Nov-05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2019 |
104 |
90 |
294 |
125 |
|
2020 |
167 |
148 |
368 |
234 |
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.
FOI Reference Number
16297
Request Title
Anti-Social Behaviour Reports Involving Fireworks/Incidents of Seizing Illegal Fireworks
Date Range
2016 to 2021
Information Requested
The number of reports of anti-social behaviour involving fireworks made to your police force in each of the last five years.
The number of incidences of your force seizing illegal fireworks in each of the last five years.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Part Disclosure with Section 12 Exemption
Information Correct as at
03 December 2021
Date of Disclosure
17 December 2021
Related Documents/Links
https://www.essex.police.uk/foi-ai/af/accessing-information/published-items/?q=fireworks
FOI 16297 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, however, the obligation of Section 1(1)(b) cannot be met as Essex Police does not hold all the information requested in a format that allows it to be retrieved within the time and cost limits of FOI.
When responding to a request for information under the terms of the FOIA, a public authority is not obliged to provide information if the authority estimates that the cost of the retrieval of the information requested would be in excess of £450 (equivalent to 18 hours work). The costs criteria relates to a request in its entirety, which means that if we cannot retrieve all of the information requested within the costs limit, we are not obliged to retrieve any of the information requested.
Section 12(1) of the FOIA states that a public authority is not obliged to:
“…comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”
The following explanation outlines the difficulty Essex Police has in answering your request:
In relation to Question 2, Essex Police are unable to accurately extract the level of detail in relation to your request from our current systems. Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not primarily for the production of statistical information for FOI responses. This request would entail manually extracting the requested data and then reviewing each incident one by one to establish the information if held as there is no flag/tag for seizures on the Command and Control system. To establish if information is held would, therefore, exceed the time and cost limits under the FOIA and would qualify as the creation of data as the results cannot be processed by means of purely sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool. There is no requirement under the act to create data purely to answer FOI requests.
Consequently, and to this extent, Essex Police are exempt from the duty to provide information you have requested under the provisions of Section 12(1) of the FOIA. Therefore, and in accordance with Section 17(1) of the FOIA, this communication must act as a refusal notice to provide all of the information that could be interpreted as being captured by this part of your request.
Having said that and in an effort to assist, although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the FOIA, Essex Police can confirm the following:
Caveats:
The data is correct as at 03 December 2021.
Please note the 2021 results include data to 31 October 2021.
The number of reports of anti-social behaviour involving fireworks made to your Police force in each of the last five years.
|
Year |
Number of anti-social behaviour incidents involving fireworks |
|---|---|
|
2016 |
395 |
|
2017 |
456 |
|
2018 |
458 |
|
2019 |
484 |
|
2020 |
734 |
|
2021 |
212 |
|
Grand Total |
2739 |
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.