Thank you for your email to the Information Management Department at
Northumbria Police.  Please accept this reply as acknowledgement it has
been received and note that this mailbox only deals with queries that are
directly related to Freedom of Information Act matters.

 

Freedom of Information Act Requests

 

Where a request falls under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, we will
aim to return to you within 20 working days. However, due to current
circumstances, we apologise for any delay in providing a response. We will
endeavour to process your request as quickly as possible and thank you for
your patience.

 

Where a request falls outside of the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

 

Personal Information / Subject Access Requests / Third Party Information
Requests 

 

Are forwarded to our colleagues in Data Protection, who will contact you
directly. 

 

Insurance Companies

 

Queries relating to a crime are forwarded
to: [1][email address]

 

Queries relating to a collision records are forwarded
to: [2][email address]

 

Colleagues will contact you directly and advise of any fees payable and
processes to follow.

 

Update on A Crime You Have Reported / Follow Up My Crime

 

Please complete the form in the following link as we cannot access such
details: [3]Follow up my crime : Northumbria Police

 

Clare’s Law

 

You are asked to access the following links:

[4]Clare’s Law – Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme : Northumbria Police

 

Sarah’s Law

 

You are asked to access the following links:

[5]Sarah’s Law – Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme : Northumbria Police

 

Court Orders

 

Are managed separately but service is accepted via this mailbox.

 

Please note that this mailbox is managed during normal office hours from
Monday to Friday.

 

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Information Management Unit

 

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Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

 

Thank you for your email received on the 1 September 2023 in which you
made a request for access to certain information which may be held by
Northumbria Police.

 

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of
access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority
(including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

 

 

You asked:

 

Please can you provide:

 

1) The total number of Notice of Intended Prosecutions for speeding
offences issued in the calendar year 2022, split by speed limit.  Please
include all NIPs, whether generated by fixed camera, mobile camera,
hand-held or other device

 

2) Of the total number of NIPs above, how many were generated from fixed
cameras.

 

 

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I
provide a response for your attention.

 

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Fixed
Penalty Unit of Northumbria Police.  I can confirm that the information
you have requested is held in part by Northumbria Police however cannot be
discosed fro the following reasons.

The information requested is not already held statistically nor is it held
in a format that would allow its extraction from recording systems within
the permitted 18 hour threshold. For the year 2022 in excess of 33,400
NIPs were issued.  To break down as per your request woud require each of
those NIPs to be manually reviewed.  Even at a conservative estimate of 5
minutes per record, which we have considered as reasonable, we have
estimated that to locate, extract and compile this information would take
over 2,780 hours, therefore Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information
Act would apply. This section does not oblige a public authority to comply
with a request for information if the authority estimated that the cost of
complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit of 18 hours,
equating to £450.00

You should consider this to be a refusal notice under Section 17 of the
Act for your request.

 

When applying Section 12 exemption our duty to assist under Section 16 of
the Act would normally entail that we contact you to determine whether it
is possible to refine the scope of your request to bring it within the
cost limits. However, from the information we have outlined above I see no
reasonable way in which we can do so.

 

 

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you
to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as
to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent
the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

 

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a
specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an
indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by
another.  Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor
are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  For this reason
responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for
comparative purposes.

 

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual
property rights of Northumbria Police.  Your use of the information must
be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988
(as amended) or such other applicable legislation.  In particular, you
must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

 

You may be interested to know that Northumbria Police routinely publish
information via the Disclosure Log.  The aim of the Disclosure Log is to
promote openness and transparency by voluntarily placing information into
the public arena.

 

The Disclosure Log contains copies of some of the information that has
been disclosed by Northumbria 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.

 

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How to complain

 

If you are unhappy with our decision or do not consider that we have
handled your request properly and we are unable to resolve this issue
informally, you are entitled to make a formal complaint to us under our
complaints procedure, attached.

 

If you are still unhappy after we have investigated your complaint and
reported to you the outcome, you may complain directly to the Information
Commissioner’s Office and request that they investigate to ascertain
whether we have dealt with your request in accordance with the Act.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

FOI Team

 

Information Management Department

 

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