Types of Dogs Seized by the Police for Being Dangerously Out of Control 2019 to 2021
Keywords
Types, Dogs, Seized, Dangerously, Out-of-control, Keeping, Proper, Prohibited, Breeds, Bred, Fighting, Breed, Type, Breakdown, Number, Deemed, Death, Sustained, Attack, Multiple, Bite, Incident, Single, Injury.
Publication Number
PUB 1081
FOI Reference Number
16669
Request Title
Types of Dogs Seized by the Police for Being Dangerously Out of Control 2019 to 2021
Date Range
01 January 2019 to 31 December 2021
Information Requested
The total number of dogs that have been seized by Essex Police for being considered dangerously out of control as per DDA 91, s3 – Keeping Dogs Under Proper Control, between 1st of January 2019 – 31st of December 2021.
The total number of those dogs that in addition to being considered dangerously out of control were found to be prohibited breeds as per DDA 91, s1 – Dogs Bred for Fighting, between 1st of January 2019 – 31st of December 2021.
The total number for each breed or type of dog that was seized under DDA 91, s3 – Keeping Dogs Under Proper Control, between 1st of January 2019 – 31st of December 2021 (this list should include breed and type breakdown by number).
To help understand why a breed or type of dog might have been deemed dangerous between 1st of January 2019 – 31st of December 2021 please provide a breakdown of numbers for the following;
1. Death
2. Sustained attack requiring physical intervention to cease
3. Multiple Bite Incident
4. Single Bite Incident
5. No bite but injury occurred
6. No Injury
Disclosure with Exemptions
Part Disclosure with Section 12 Exemption
Information Correct as at
26 January 2022
Date of Disclosure
14 February 2022
Related Documents/Links
Offences 008/21 & 008/22 - Dogs 2017 to 2022
Seizures of Dangerous & Banned Breed Dogs 2022
Dangerous Dogs Seized 2017 to 2021
Seized Dogs June 2019 to May 2020
FOI 16669 Response
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The following explanation outlines the difficulty Essex Police has in answering your request:
In relation to points 2, 3 and 4, Essex Police are unable to accurately extract the level of detail in relation to your request for the requested period 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. 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:
Caveat: The data is correct as at 26 January 2022.
The total number of dogs that have been seized by Essex Police for being considered dangerously out of control as per DDA 91, s3 – Keeping Dogs Under Proper Control, between 1st of January 2019 – 31st of December 2021.
190 (dogs in total not just dogs under DDA 91 - 441).
The total number of those dogs that in addition to being considered dangerously out of control were found to be prohibited breeds as per DDA 91, s1 – Dogs Bred for Fighting, between 1st of January 2019 – 31st of December 2021.
55.
The total number for each breed or type of dog that was seized under DDA 91, s3 – Keeping Dogs Under Proper Control, between 1st of January 2019 – 31st of December 2021 (this list should include breed and type breakdown by number).
|
Breed |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
SBT |
18 |
9 |
15 |
|
GSD |
4 |
6 |
8 |
|
Shar-pei |
1 |
2 |
2 |
|
Jack Russell |
1 |
3 |
3 |
|
Mastiff |
5 |
4 |
1 |
|
Boxer |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
English bull terrier |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Rottweiler |
3 |
2 |
0 |
|
Collie |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Cane Corso |
1 |
5 |
5 |
|
X Breed |
9 |
15 |
1 |
|
Beagle |
1 |
0 |
3 |
|
Husky |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
Akita |
1 |
3 |
1 |
|
Doberman |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
PBT |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
Ridgeback |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Malamute |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Lurcher |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
Bulldog |
0 |
10 |
3 |
|
American Bulldog (ABD) |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Dog de Bordeaux |
0 |
1 |
4 |
|
Patterdale |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Daschund |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Labrador |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
French bulldog |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Alapaha blue blood |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Presa Canaria |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Shiatsu |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Weimaraner |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Cavapoo |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Spaniel |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
Labradoodle |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Chihuahua |
0 |
1 |
0 |
To help understand why a breed or type of dog might have been deemed dangerous between 1st of January 2019 – 31st of December 2021 please provide a breakdown of numbers for the following:
1. Death
Nil.
5. No bite but injury occurred
Nil, they would be seized if injury occurred.
6. No Injury
Nil, they would be seized if injury occurred.
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.