Dog Fouling
Dear Richmondshire District Council,
Request under Freedom Of Information
Ref: Dog Fouling:
1 How many complaints and/or reports of dog fouling have you
received for the period 1st January 2005 up to 1st September 2012, please give individual year on year figures.
Yours faithfully,
Bill MacDonald
RDC FOI Ref:2085 – Dog Fouling Info
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Bill MacDonald left an annotation ()
Hello Sarah,
I had noticed your request but it's in order to get more information that I've requested those further details. You may or may not know, but the reason for the wording of my request is because some local authorities don't consider a "report" of dog fouling to be a "complaint" and keep separate details. Therefore if you only request details for complaints that's what they give you. If I can give you a few examples for the period in question:
Orkney had zero "complaints" and 289 "reports".
East Lothian had 862 "complaints" and 300 "reports".
Borders had 4 "complaints" and 2625 "reports".
Nottingham had 2832 "complaints" and 2147 "reports".
In my opinion it's just another way to massage the figures and hide the truth.
Just to emphasise my thinking you only have to look at Wandsworth who have had: 1075 "complaints" 1261 "warnings" and 289 "prosecutions".
Hope this helps.
SarahHartley left an annotation ()
Thanks, very interesting and will look forward to seeing the response you get too. Sarah
Dear Cantrell, Sheila,
I remind you that my request for information has not yet been received. By law, my request should have been dealt with promptly and normally by 23rd November 2012.
Yours sincerely,
Bill MacDonald
SarahHartley left an annotation ()
http://richmond.n0tice.com/report/41141/...
Keeping tabs on this...........
RDC FOI Ref:2085 - Dog Fouling Info
Dear Mr MacDonald
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request
Your request for information has now been considered and the information
requested is below.
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SarahHartley left an annotation ()
Hi Bill, you may be interested in the FOI I put in on this subject which I have published here: http://richmond.n0tice.com/report/12062/...