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RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION  Our Ref:
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With reference to your e-mail received 18/05/2020 requesting information:

 

Please can you provide the last 10 years of expenditure, by year, on
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Dear Mike Asplin

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Our Ref: 002807/20

With reference to your e-mail received 18/05/2020 requesting information as reproduced below:

Please can you provide the last 10 years of expenditure, by year, on forensic science services broken down between in-house and contracted out. Also can you give the split of contracted out expenditure that relates to digital forensics.

I can confirm that Northamptonshire Police holds the information requested as follows:

Year

Contracted out services exc digital forensics £

Contracted out services: digital forensics £

Total contracted out services £

Regional contributions exc digital forensics £

Regional contributions: digital forensics £

Total Regional Contributions £

In house services exc digital forensics £

In house services: digital forensics £

Total In house services £

Grand Total £

2019/2020

604,310

-

604,310

749,248

-

749,248

912,860

1,739,926

2,652,786

4,006,344

2018/2019

560,905

-

560,905

726,985

-

726,985

922,884

1,311,073

2,233,957

3,521,847

2017/2018

604,169

-

604,169

719,309

-

719,309

793,076

1,266,768

2,059,844

3,383,322

2016/2017

826,791

-

826,791

697,296

-

697,296

825,902

1,135,644

1,961,546

3,485,633

2015/2016

794,995

-

794,995

594,123

-

594,123

991,220

1,191,597

2,182,817

3,571,935

2014/2015

689,416

-

689,416

549,771

-

549,771

981,177

924,385

1,905,562

3,144,748

2013/2014

1,104,750

-

1,104,750

-

-

-

1,594,612

741,608

2,336,220

3,440,971

Please Note - Regional Contributions (East Midlands Forensic Services Contributions) this is Northamptonshire's contribution towards the shared services costs, these are contributions towards a shared service by the 5 forces in the region. Data held has been supplied.

The numerical data presented in this response is an un-audited snapshot of un-published data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.

Please note that this data should be interpreted with caution. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when the data is used.

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.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

I trust you find this information to be satisfactory but if you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Northamptonshire Police provides a review and appeals procedure within the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If you decide to make an appeal and, having followed the full process you are still dissatisfied, you will then have the right to direct your comments to the Information Commissioner who will give due consideration to the matter. See Appendix 'a' attached.

Regards

Dale
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PC 324 Dale Hillyer
Information Unit | Freedom of Information
Northamptonshire Police

*Telephone 101 Ext 344376
* Email [email address]<mailto:[email address]>
*Address Force Headquarters, Wootton Hall, Wotton Hall Park, Northampton

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