warrants issued for breach of probation licence conditions

Dear Mr Plough

Reference No: RFI2009000493

Thank you for your request for information dated 09/07/2009 concerning
warrants for individuals that have broken their probation licence in the
last five years.

This request will be dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response
within the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act,
subject to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to
a third party. In some circumstances Thames Valley Police may be unable
to achieve this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and
given a revised time-scale at the earliest opportunity.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Thames Valley Police.

Yours sincerely

Kirsty Hopgood
Freedom of Information

Dear Mr Alexander,

Reference No: RFI2009000493

Thank you for your request for information dated 09/07/2009 which for
clarity I have repeated -

Please provide the following data, broken down for each year:

(1) In the last 5 years, how many warrants for arrest have been issued for
an individual who has broken their probation licence conditions?

(2) Out of this figure, how many were considered high priority, and/or
considered to pose a risk of harm to others?

(3) Out of the total number of warrants issued per year, as stated in
answer to (1), how many of those individuals have been re-arrested?

(4) Out of the warrants consider high priority, as stated in the answer to
(2), how many of those individuals have been re-arrested?

(5) Out of the total number of warrants issued, as stated in the answer to
(1), how many of those individuals have re-offended while a warrant for
their arrest was active?

(6) Out of the total number of warrants issued, as stated in the answer to
(2), how many of those individuals have re-offended while a warrant for
their arrest was active?

(7) Referring to the individuals stated in answer in question (5), what
crimes have they committed while a warrant for their arrest was active?

(8) Referring to the individuals stated in answer in question (6), what
crimes have they committed while a warrant for their arrest was active?

(9) Please provide the following information about any individual who is
the subject of a warrant for arrest for breaking their probation licence
conditions, but who has not as yet been

re-arrested:

* names, ages and last offence for which they received a custodial
sentence.

Your request for information has now been considered and our response is
detailed below.

The information requested is not held in an easily retrievable format or
at the level you require on ICT systems used by Thames Valley Police. 
Any attempt to retrieve the information specific to your request would
involve a complicated and prolonged search of records across systems and
may not necessarily provide accurate results and would exceed the
appropriate cost limit of £450.

The cost of providing you with the information is above the amount we are
legally required to respond i.e. the cost of locating and retrieving the
information exceeds the "Appropriate Limit" as stated in the Freedom of
Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.

Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act allows that public
authorities do not have to comply with section 1(1) of the Act if the cost
of complying would exceed the appropriate limit.  It is Thames Valley
Police general policy that should a request for information exceed the
appropriate level then we will exercise our legal right not to respond but
cases will be assessed individually to consider the implications.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, this letter represents
a Refusal Notice for this particular request.

Please contact me quoting the above reference number if you would like to
discuss this matter further.

Thank you for your interest in Thames Valley Police.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Picking

Freedom of Information Officer

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