Dead Birds of Prey Statistics - 5 Years
Keywords
Dead, Birds, Prey, Cause, Death, Confirmed, Prosecution, Reports.
Publication Number
PUB 1420
FOI Reference Number
17042
Request Title
Dead Birds of Prey Statistics - 5 Years
Date Range
2020 to 2022
Information Requested
Initial Request
I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 about the number of reports the police force has received, regarding the number of confirmed dead birds of prey over the past five years.
• Please would you be able to tell me the number of dead birds of prey that have been confirmed by the police for each year?
• Please would you be able to tell me the cause of death confirmed by the police for each dead bird of prey for each year? If the answer is unknown, please state this.
• Finally, for each year, would you be able to tell me how many of these confirmed deaths resulted in some form of police prosecution stating whether or not each prosecution was successful?
Refined Request
If the team finds the initial search too time-consuming, the constabulary maybe able to search for offences under specific legislation, namely is a search for offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Rather than chase court data, it may be easier to find provide the police outcome e.g. charge.
And finally, perhaps it might be easier to refine the search for “wildlife bird” rather than bird of prey.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at
01 May 2022
Date of Disclosure
09 June 2022
Related Documents/Links
FOI 17042 Response
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police does hold information relating to all of your request.
Second Duty – see below:
Fact – See below
Exemption – not applicable
Reasoning – see below
Caveat: Non-notifiable offences recorded between 1st Jan 2017 and 1st May 2022 where the HO Classification Code has been recorded as 190/01 this will cover ALL BIRDS not just birds of prey. The bird would be recorded in the MO FIELD for example Buzzard.
Data is presented in calendar years
|
Year |
Number of offences involving wildlife (birds) |
MO involving birds of prey reference
|
Reference made to status of the bird as dead/killed |
|
2020 |
10 |
2 |
5 |
|
2021 |
15 |
1 |
8 |
|
2022 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
No positive charges were made.
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.