Controlling or coercive behaviour crime statistics

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Good morning - please could you answer the following questions on Section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015?

1) Please can you tell me how many reports of controlling or coercive behaviour were made under section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 to officers for the calendar years:
a. 2016
b. 2017
c. 2018
d. 2019
e. 2020 to date.

2.) Please can you tell me how many arrests under section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 (controlling or coercive behaviour) were made by your officers for the calendar years:
a. 2016
b. 2017
c. 2018
d. 2019
e. 2020 to date.

3) Please can you give me the outcomes (charged, not in public interest etc) of the arrests / offences committed identified in the answers to Q1a-c
a. 2016
b. 2017
c. 2018
d. 2019
e. 2020 to date.

4) Can you tell me the number of referrals to the CPS by your force for a prosecution under section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 were rejected/not taken forward by the CPS for the calendar years (by this I mean cases brought to the CPS by your police force that is not taken to prosecution for whatever reason eg lack of evidence etc):
a. 2016
b. 2017
c. 2018
d. 2019
e. 2020 to date.

5) Can you please provide all of this data in either an .xls/.xlsx/.csv file format?

If you cannot provide the full breakdown of information I have requested, please contact me to discuss what information you could supply at the earliest opportunity on [mobile number removed].

If I am mistaken and the information requested is already in the public domain, please direct me to where I can find it.

If it is not, and you feel you cannot provide all of this information, please provide what information you can in the spirit of Section 16 of FoI, to ‘provide advice and assistance, so far as it would be reasonable to expect the authority to do so, to persons who propose to make, or have made requests for information’.

Please send me the information by email. Please provide me with a summary of the information I have requested.

I look forward to hearing from you promptly, and at any rate, within the statutory time limit of 20 working days from your receipt of this email.

Whilst writing, I take this opportunity to remind you of the Information Commissioner's public statements, in which he has stated that there is a "presumption of disclosure" under FoI.

Please note that if this request for FoI disclosure is refused, I reserve the right to take up the matter with the Information Commissioner and/or to pursue all legal avenues of appeal. I trust this will not be necessary.

Thanks in advance for your help

Yours faithfully,

ITV Central

no-reply@bch.ecase.gsi.gov.uk on behalf of FOI Team, Cambridgeshire Constabulary

Our ref: FOI2020/00842

Dear ,

I am writing with regards to your request for information, which was
received 3rd February.

We have started to consider your request, however we require further
information before we are able to proceed.

Please provide full name to this request.

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Yours sincerely,
Margaret Donoghue

Dear Margaret

Apologies my name is Emma Woods I'm a journalist at ITV Central News.

Best wishes
Emma Woods

no-reply@bch.ecase.gsi.gov.uk on behalf of FOI Team, Cambridgeshire Constabulary

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Dear ,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 3rd
February.

Yours sincerely,
Margaret Donoghue