FOI Request - Financial fraud / financial crime in Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire Police did not have the information requested.

Dear Northamptonshire Police,

Please could you provide me with the below information

How many people over the age of 60 (or closest age range) reported a financial crime or financial fraud in your region in 2019 and 2020.

How many people were convicted of a financial crime or financial fraud in your region in 2019 and 2020.

How many reports of becoming a victim of COVID vaccine fraud have there been in your region? Please provide information split by age range if possible.

Please report each category separately for each year.
Please provide the response in electronic form.

Yours faithfully,

Eva Joyce

Freedom of Information,

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Dear Ms Joyce

 

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - Our Ref:
001363/21

 

With reference to your e-mail received 26/02/2021 requesting information:

 

How many people over the age of 60 (or closest age range) reported a
financial crime or financial fraud in your region in 2019 and 2020.

 

How many people were convicted of a financial crime or financial fraud in
your region in 2019 and 2020.

 

How many reports of becoming a victim of COVID vaccine fraud have there
been in your region? Please provide information split by age range if
possible.

 

This is to inform you that Northamptonshire Police are currently dealing
with high levels of demand for information. Every effort will be made to
ensure that you receive an appropriate response on time, however, we may
not be able to complete the response to your request within 20 working
days. The ICO is aware and we are currently enacting a recovery plan.

 

On behalf of Northamptonshire Police, I do apologise for any inconvenience
that may be caused by this delay and if you wish to discuss this any
further then please contact the undersigned.

 

Northamptonshire Police provides a review and appeals procedure within the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If you decide to make an
appeal and, having followed the full process you are still dissatisfied,
you will then have the right to direct your comments to the Information
Commissioner who will give due consideration to the matter. See Appendix
'a' attached.

 

Northamptonshire Police routinely publish information on our website via
the Publication Scheme. The aim of the Publication Scheme is to promote
openness and transparency by voluntarily placing information into the
public arena.

The Disclosure Log contains copies of information that has been disclosed
by Northamptonshire Police in response to requests made under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000. Whilst it is not possible to publish all
responses we will endeavour to publish those where we feel that the
information disclosed is in the wider public interest. The Disclosure Log
will be updated once responses have been sent to the requester.

 

I have provided the relevant link below.

 

[1]https://www.northants.police.uk/foi-ai/a...

 

Yours sincerely

 

Gemma Barrie

C1374 Gemma Barrie| Senior Freedom of Information Officer and Researcher

Force Information Unit | Professional Standards Department

Northamptonshire Police

 

Telephone: 101 | Ext No. 343701 - (If calling from outside
Northamptonshire, please call 03000 111 222)

Email: [2][email address]

Address: Force Headquarters, Wootton Hall, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton
NN4 0JQ

 

Northamptonshire Police "Putting Communities First"

 

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Barrie Gemma,

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Dear Ms Joyce   

 

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Our Ref: 001363/21

 

With reference to your e-mail received 26/02/2021 requesting information
reproduced below:

 

How many people over the age of 60 (or closest age range) reported a
financial crime or financial fraud in your region in 2019 and 2020.

 

How many people were convicted of a financial crime or financial fraud in
your region in 2019 and 2020.

 

How many reports of becoming a victim of COVID vaccine fraud have there
been in your region? Please provide information split by age range if
possible.

 

Please report each category separately for each year.

 

The information you are requesting is not held by Northamptonshire Police
in any reasonably retrievable form. The only means of establishing
information of the nature you are requesting would be by way of manual
examination of each fraud record to determine the type of fraud. Our
information retrieval process generally relies on a computer ran report
which captures any information recorded upon the surface of a record or
within specified fields. Where relevant information is held deeper in the
record, or outside of a specified field, a manual assessment is usually
required to retrieve that information.

It is my assessment that the cost of providing you with the information
requested would exceed the 'appropriate level' as set out in the Freedom
of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

 

My assessment is that it would cost 650 (number of records) x 3 minutes
each (minimum) = over 32 hours at £25 per hour to respond to your request,
which exceeds the 'appropriate limit' (currently £450 for 'prescribed
costs').

 

In view of the above, and in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, please take this letter as a Refusal Notice.

 

You may wish to refine and resubmit your request so that it reduces the
costs shown above and is then within the 'appropriate limit' shown above.
(I cannot think of a means to refine the request in order to provide the
information you are seeking) but if you would like some further
information about how to proceed with your request then please contact the
undersigned.

 

Please note, information on convictions i.e. results at Court, are held by
Her Majesty's Court Service

 

I trust you find this information to be satisfactory but if you have any
further queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Northamptonshire Police provides a review and appeals procedure within the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If you decide to make an
appeal and, having followed the full process you are still dissatisfied,
you will then have the right to direct your comments to the Information
Commissioner who will give due consideration to the matter. See Appendix
'a' attached.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Gemma Barrie

C1374 Gemma Barrie| Senior Freedom of Information Officer and Researcher

Force Information Unit | Professional Standards Department

Northamptonshire Police

 

Telephone: 101 | Ext No. 343701/ 341172 - (If calling from outside
Northamptonshire, please call 03000 111 222)

Email: [1][email address]

Address: Force Headquarters, Wootton Hall, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton
NN4 0JQ

 

Northamptonshire Police "Putting Communities First"

 

The content of this email should be treated as RESTRICTED unless otherwise
indicated

 

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