Elderly Crime

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Dear Northumbria Police,

I am writing to request the information. Please treat this as a fresh request from a similar one you may have received from me (this one goes into more detail so you can ignore the previous one).

Could you please provide the following information?

All crimes recorded where the identified victim is aged over 65 for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 calender years, with an annual breakdown.

The number of such crimes (broken down by year) that resulted in a charge over the same years, with a similar breakdown.

Could you please breakdown the offences into specific crimes, ensuring that you use the Home Office's crime classifications (name and code) rather than any other classifications.

Many thanks for all of your help on this.

Yours faithfully,

Gurpreet Narwan

Freedom of Information Mailbox, Northumbria Police

Gurpreet
We don’t seem to have a request from you to ignore.
Please advise on the reference number of the one your referring to - you would have been supplied with this in your acknowledgement e mail along with your due date.

Regards

FOI team

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Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,
That's strange. In which case, please resume with this as a fresh request

Yours sincerely,

Gurpreet

Freedom of Information Mailbox, Northumbria Police

Dear Gurpreet,

We have found the following request which answers your questions. This is already on the Northumbria Police Disclosure Log and I have provided the link for you below.

http://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedom...

Regards,

Shirley Scott
Information Management Unit

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Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,

This appears to be my original request. As stated in my new request, could you please categorise the crimes according to Home Office categories and codes please? I would be very grateful

Yours sincerely,

Gurpreet

Freedom of Information Mailbox, Northumbria Police

Dear Gurpreet,

It appears that the email trail does not have your full question with the date parameters. In order for us to have the exact wording and in order to avoid doubt, please confirm if the below is your request.

Request
Following on from Freedom Of Information request 413/18. Could you please supply the following using the same date parameters and subject matter.

Where the identified victim is aged over 65 for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 calendar years, with an annual breakdown

1. Could you please categorise the crimes according to Home Office categories and codes please.

Once I receive confirmation I will progress with your request and provide your reference number and due date.

Regards,

Shirley Scott
Information Management Unit

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Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,

Thanks Shirley. That’s great, except could you also provide how many and which of those crimes resulted in a charge.

Yours sincerely,

Gurpreet

Freedom of Information Mailbox, Northumbria Police

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Thank you for your email received today in which you make a request for information that Northumbria Police may hold in accordance with the Freedom Of Information Act 2000

We are in the process of dealing with your request and a response should be provided to you by 29/08/2018 which is in accordance with the legislation.

To avoid doubt, your request is now as below.

Following on from Freedom Of Information request 413/18. Could you please supply the following using the same date parameters and subject matter.

Where the identified victim is aged over 65 for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 calendar years, with an annual breakdown

1. Could you please categorise the crimes according to Home Office categories and codes please. Could you also provide how many and which of those crimes resulted in a charge

Please make sure if you have any queries, quote the reference number as in the subject line of this email.

Yours sincerely

Information Management Unit

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Freedom of Information Mailbox, Northumbria Police

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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 e mail dated 31^st July 2018 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:

 

Following on from Freedom Of Information request 413/18. Could you please
supply the following using the same date parameters and subject matter.

 

Where the identified victim is aged over 65 for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016,
2017 calendar years, with an annual breakdown

 

1. Could you please categorise the crimes according to Home Office
categories and codes please. Could you also provide how many and which of
those crimes resulted in a charge

 

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
Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that
the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

 

I am able to disclose the located information to you as attached.

 

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.

 

[1]http://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedom...

 

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 below

[2]http://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedom...

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

 

Michael Cleugh

Data Protection and Disclosure Advisor

Direct Dial: 0191 2956941

 

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Freedom of Information Mailbox, Northumbria Police

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Dear Gurpreet,

 

Please ignore the final response that we have sent to you today.  The
document that was attached to that email has the wrong heading for your
request, although the information contained refers to your subject matter.

 

Please find attached the correct document with the right heading.

 

This email is now your final response.

 

Regards,

 

Shirley Scott

Information Management Unit

 

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Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,

Thank you very much for your response. It is very helpful but for ease of interpretation, would you mind writing the charge next to the code so i can see what the numbers correspond to. I would be very grateful for your help in clarifying this.

Yours sincerely,

Gurpreet

Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,

soprry, i mean writing the *crime* next to the code so i can see what crime the code corresponds to

Yours sincerely,

Gurpreet

Freedom of Information Mailbox, Northumbria Police

Dear Gurpreet,

I believe this has already been covered in our response. In the attachment we provided to you, it had all of the data from your previous request. The last part of the data which refers to your current request The data at the end has the charge next to the code which is what you asked for.

Regards,

Shirley Scott

Information Management Unit

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Freedom of Information Mailbox, Northumbria Police

Dear Gurpreet,

This is not what you asked for initially. You were not explicit in your request. The department that conducted the research has grouped the offences together under the HO classification category which was their interpretation of what you required.

Therefore, we have complied with your initial request.

If you wish to request this information to be provided in a different format, we can take that forward as a new request. Please write your new request in full and exactly what you require.

Please note, that the new request will be aggregated for time and cost with your previous FOI.

Regards,

Shirley Scott
Information Management Unit

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