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Essex Police will endeavour to respond to your application within 20
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Please note that Essex Police may refuse detailed or multiple requests
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Freedom of Information 

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Essex Police 

Email: [7][Essex Police request email] 

Telephone: 01245 452647 (Open office hours, Monday to Friday or
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Address: Information Rights Team, Information Management Dept., Essex
Police HQ, PO Box 2, Chelmsford CM2 6DA   

Services offered by Information Rights Team: [8]Information Rights | Essex
Police 

  

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Thank you for your patience in regard to your request and we acknowledge
you are awaiting a response.  We must firstly apologise for the lack of
updates from this department as the level of service provided has been
below what is expected.   

 

Your request has been sent to our Performance Analysis Unit (PAU) for
review.  However, at this current time, due to the considerable backlog of
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Once again, please accept our apologies for the delay you have
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Freedom of Information

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Essex Police

Email: [1][Essex Police request email]

Telephone: 01245 452647 (Open office hours, Monday to Friday or
answerphone facility available)

Address: Information Rights Team, Information Management Dept., Essex
Police HQ, PO Box 2, Chelmsford CM2 6DA 

Services offered by Information Rights Team: [2]Information Rights | Essex
Police

 

Find out what is happening in your area: [3]Your area | Essex Police

Contact Us: [4]Help us help you | Essex Police 

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Thank you for your Freedom of information (FOI) request logged under the
above reference.  

Please accept our apologies in respect of the delay you have experienced,
we have not met the standard of service expected in respect of timeliness.
To explain, we are currently upskilling our workforce in the specialist
area of Freedom of Information, so that we are better equipped to meet the
growing demand for information under this right. We are working hard to
improve our service in this area.

We are now in a position to dedicate time to review our outstanding work
and can respond as below.

 

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) places two duties on public
authorities:    

   

Unless exemptions apply, the first duty (at [1]Section 1(1)(a) is to
confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held.   

The second duty (at [2]Section 1(1)(b) is to disclose information that
has been confirmed as being held.    

However, where exemptions are relied upon ([3]Section 17 of FOIA), there
is a requirement to provide the applicant with an explanation either:  

a) stating the fact   

b) detailing the exemption(s) in question and  

c) why the exemption applies (if not apparent).  

   

Information Request 

 

I write to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requesting
information on the number of dog attacks on farm animals in Essex.

 

For the individual years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, would you
be able to provide data pertaining to the number of dog attacks on farm
animals recorded by Essex Police in:

 

• Colchester

• Tendring

• Maldon

• Braintree

• Uttlesford

• Chelmsford

• Harlow

• Epping

• Brentwood

• Thurrock

• Basildon

• Castle Point

• Rochford

• Southend

 

FOI Duty  

First Duty – Essex Police does hold information relating to your
request.   

Second Duty – See below 

Fact – See below 

Exemption – Not applicable

 

Essex Police can report as follows: 

  

Caveat: The information is correct as at 01 May 2024

 

Notes

- A search was done on all Incidents between 2018 and 2023 with Final Call
Type ‘Animal’ (Final Call Type Description ‘ANIMAL RELATED INC. (NOT RTC)’
with Incident Comment including ‘DOG/DOGS CHASING’, ‘DOG/DOGS INJURING’,
‘DOG/DOGS KILLING’, ‘DOG/DOGS ATTACKING’, ‘DOG/DOGS ATTACK’, ‘DOG/DOGS
WORRYING’.

- A manual check was then done to include only incidents whereby dogs were
chasing/injuring/killing/attacking/worrying farm animals/livestock.

- The results are broken down by Incident Saved year and Incident District
location.

 

Numbers of Dog Attack Incidents Involving Farm Animals by Policing
District and Year – 2018 to 2023

  Year
District 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total
BASILDON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BRAINTREE 0 0 1 0 0 2 3
BRENTWOOD 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
CASTLE POINT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CHELMSFORD 1 2 3 1 0 0 7
COLCHESTER 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
EPPING 0 1 2 0 1 0 4
HARLOW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MALDON 0 0 1 0 0 1 2
ROCHFORD 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
SOUTHEND 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TENDRING 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
THURROCK 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
UTTLESFORD 3 2 1 0 0 0 6
Grand Total 4 6 9 5 3 3 30

 

Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is
accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed
primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes
of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although
data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the
results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand
our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.

 

The following articles available via our publication scheme may also be of
interest:

 

[4]Published Items - Dog Attacks | Essex Police

 

Please note the above request will be included within our [5]Publication
Scheme.  

  

Thank you for your interest in Essex Police. 

 

Freedom of Information 

Information Rights Team | Information Compliance & Assurance  

Information Management Dept. | Professionalism Command 

Essex Police 

Email: [6][Essex Police request email] 

Telephone: 01245 452647 (Open office hours, Monday to Friday or
answerphone facility available) 

Address: Information Rights Team, Information Management Dept., Essex
Police HQ, PO Box 2, Chelmsford CM2 6DA   

Services offered by Information Rights Team: [7]Information Rights | Essex
Police 

  

Find out what is happening in your area: [8]Your area | Essex Police  

Contact Us: [9]Help us help you | Essex Police   

Report non-emergency crime online: [10]Report | Essex Police 

How do we use your data: [11]Privacy notice | Essex Police 

 

FOI requests  

Before submission of an FOI Information request, please visit: [12]How to
access information from a public body | ICO and please review our
publications regarding various subjects through [13]Accessing information
| Essex Police to prevent unnecessary requests.  

  

Your right to complain  

  

If you feel your request has not been properly handled, or you are
otherwise dissatisfied with the outcome of your request you have the right
to complain.  

  

Under [14]Section 17(7)(a)(b) FOIA complaints should be submitted within
40 working days from the date of this response and should be addressed to
the Information Rights Manager at the above address or by email to:
[15][Essex Police request email] we will conduct a review to
investigate your complaint and endeavour to reply within 40 working days.
Please explain which aspect of the disclosure you are not satisfied with,
and if your complaint concerns the decision to apply an exemption. 

  

If you are still dissatisfied following our review, you have the right
under the [16]Section 50 FOIA to complain directly to the Information
Commissioner. Before considering your complaint, the Information
Commissioner would normally expect you to have exhausted the complaints
procedures provided by Essex Police.  The Information Commissioner can be
contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water
Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF or via [17]Home | ICO

 

From: Info Rights Freedom Essex <[Essex Police request email]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 8:55 AM
To: Daniel Rees <[FOI #1096899 email]>
Subject: FOI 19898 Dog Attacks on Farm Animals 2018-2023

 

Thank you for your request for information, which has been logged under
the above reference number.      

   

Essex Police will endeavour to respond to your application within 20
working days, as set out within the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOIA).  If a time extension is to be applied to your request, you will be
informed; the reason for the extension will also be provided.      

   

Please note that Essex Police may refuse detailed or multiple requests
that are submitted at the same time, as per [18]Section 14 of the FOIA.
Furthermore, if the information sought is already publicly available, you
may be redirected to our publication scheme:
[19]https://www.essex.police.uk/foi-ai/af/ac... or other
official links, such as the [20]PFCC, [21]Home Office or the [22]Office
for National Statistics   

    

Should you need to contact us whilst your information request is being
processed, please email [23][Essex Police request email], quoting
the above reference, and a member of the team will assist.     

  

Freedom of Information 

Information Rights Team | Information Compliance & Assurance  

Information Management Dept. | Professionalism Command 

Essex Police 

Email: [24][Essex Police request email] 

Telephone: 01245 452647 (Open office hours, Monday to Friday or
answerphone facility available) 

Address: Information Rights Team, Information Management Dept., Essex
Police HQ, PO Box 2, Chelmsford CM2 6DA   

Services offered by Information Rights Team: [25]Information Rights |
Essex Police 

  

Find out what is happening in your area: [26]Your area | Essex Police  

Contact Us: [27]Help us help you | Essex Police   

Report non-emergency crime online: [28]Report | Essex Police 

How do we use your data : [29]Privacy notice | Essex Police 

 

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