Arrests of Environmental Protestors
Dear Port of Liverpool Police,
I'm writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to ask that you please disclose to me information relating to records kept on people arrested on ideological grounds (including but not limited to protest action).
Specifically I'd like to know how many individuals from the following groups have been arrested for the years 2021 and 2022:
Extinction Rebellion, Ocean Rebellion, Coal Action Network, Right to Roam, Earth First, Youth Strike 4 Climate, Rising Tide, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Burning Pink, Tree Defenders, Fossil Free, Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain, HS2 Rebellion (or anti-HS2 protestors), or any other relevant groups falling into the broad field of climate activism and education.
Alternatively, if the information cannot be split that way, would it instead be available by more broad key fields like "environmental protests" or "climate protest", as this would be preferable so as not to miss out on people included from smaller groups. Any way it can be made available would be fine, but to clarify, I'm not seeking the personal information of anyone involved, nor do I need to know the specific reason for arrest beyond it being related to action within an environmental group, or whether (or which) covert tactics or policing methods were used to make the arrests.
Ideally, just the base figures of either how many people from this group have been arrested (or times have people been arrested. as I', aware the same person could get arrested on multiple occasions), or how many times individuals have been arrested for engaging in climate action.
If the information still cannot be retrieved due to cost, then I'd like to request that the information regarding people arrested during such protests is made available to me in whatever form it can be (redacted as necessary) so that I can manually sift through this information, so as to avoid going over cost limit for the Act (if, for example) it's split into protest and technically searchable, but a large data set).
If however information can be given such as "disruption", or if alternatively, this information would have recorded been under certain acts or offensive, such as anti-protest legislation, terrorism, or a specific category made for ease of reference for this type of case, then please could you advise the best way in which to hone down in that way for both my own ease and ease of the processor of the request. If this is how it's recorded, then I'd like to know under which legislation the arrests have been made, please.
I'd like to know, if possible, the easiest form this would be retrievable in, as I'm aware different forces will record things on different systems, but that there will likely be common ways in which records are kept by the individual forces. A spreadsheet with the group or ideology, number of arrests, and non-essentially for the offences.
Yours faithfully,
Max Colbert
Dear Max
Please see attached.
Kind regards
Andrew
Andrew Langfeld
Group Data Protection Officer
Peel Ports ‑ Group
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Peel Ports Group Ltd
Maritime Centre
Liverpool
L21 1LA
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