Freedom of Information: time held in custody
Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Sarah and I am using a WhatDoTheyKnowAccount shared with my colleagues Harriet Clugston and Claire Wilde. I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:
For the calendar years of 2019 and 2020, I would like you to provide me with the number of people booked into the force’s custody suites following an arrest, broken down by month. I would like you to provide me with the age, sex and ethnicity of each detainee as well as the crime or power under which they were detained.
For each detainee, I would like you to provide me with the time of arrival at the designated custody facility and the time of their custody record’s closure, regardless of whether the outcome was bail, RUI, a charge or any other outcome. I am seeking only the time arriving in and leaving custody detention so please do not include days on bail etc.
For each detainee, please provide the total number of time spent in police custody in minutes
I would appreciate the information in spreadsheet format if possible. If there is any way in which you would like me to refine or explain my request further, please let me know.
Yours Sincerely,
Sarah Wilson
Dear Sarah Wilson,
Enquiry Ref: 2021/548
I acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information request.
As set out by the Freedom of Information Act, it will be our aim to
respond to your request by 02/07/2021.
If you have any questions regarding your request, please contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Ceri Hollingworth
Swyddog Hawliau Gwybodaeth |
Information Rights Officer
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Police
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Dear Sarah Wilson,
In response to your recent request for information, please find attached
our reply.
I have also attached a copy of our review procedure should you not be
happy with our response.
Regards,
P.P. Ceri Hollingworth
Swyddog Hawliau Gwybodaeth |
Information Rights Officer
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Chydymffurfio | Information
Standards & Compliance
Heddlu Gogledd Cymru | North
Wales Police
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Good afternoon
Hope you're well. Many thanks for sending through the data as requested. However, in my original request I was hoping for the data on the detainee's characteristics (i.e. age, ethnicity etc.) to be correlated with the time spent in custody.
I was wondering whether it would be possible to return the data correlated in this way? If, however, this were to trigger an FOI exemption based on identification I would instead like simply the data on ethnicity to be correlated with the time spent in custody rather than a refusal.
Do let me know if this is possible, and when I might expect to receive a reply. Many thanks!
Best
Sarah
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