Dear Ms Venables,

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION  Our Ref:
005390/20

With reference to your e-mail/request received 30/09/2020 requesting
information:

1. When did your force start the policy of  recording misogyny as a hate
crime?

2. I'd like to know how many misogyny hate crimes have been recorded since
then? Please list each incident by date, including the details of the
offence, and what the outcome was i.e. whether there was an arrest and
charge.

This is to inform you that Northamptonshire Police are currently dealing
with high levels of demand for information. Every effort will be made to
ensure that you receive an appropriate response on time, however, we may
not be able to complete the response to your request within 20 working
days. The ICO is aware and we are currently enacting a recovery plan.

On behalf of Northamptonshire Police, I do apologise for any inconvenience
that may be caused by this delay and if you wish to discuss this any
further then please contact the undersigned.

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.

Northamptonshire Police routinely publish information on our website via
the Publication Scheme. The aim of the Publication Scheme is to promote
openness and transparency by voluntarily placing information into the
public arena.

The Disclosure Log contains copies of information that has been disclosed
by Northamptonshire 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]https://www.northants.police.uk/foi-ai/a...

Yours sincerely

C0080 Amanda-Jayne USHER

Freedom of Information Officer | Force Information Unit | Professional
Standards Department

Tel: 101 | Ext. 341172 (If calling from outside of Northamptonshire,
please call 03000 111 222)

Address: Force Headquarters | Wootton Hall | Wootton Hall Park |
Northampton | NN4 0JQ

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Dear Ms Venables    

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Our Ref: 004273/20

With reference to your e-mail received 04/08/2020 requesting information
reproduced below:

During each of the past five financial years, how many section 60 'stop
and search' orders have been put in place in your force area?

(2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20)

During each of the past five financial years, how many searches under
section 60 orders have carried out in your force area?

Please list each search with details of the ethnicity and gender of the
suspect, and the outcome of the search, (including details of what was
found if possible.)

The information you are requesting is not held by Northamptonshire Police
in any reasonably retrievable form. The only means of establishing
information of the nature you are requesting would be by way of manual
examination of each stop search record to see if it was linked to a
Section 60. Our information retrieval process generally relies on a
computer ran report which captures any information recorded upon the
surface of a record or within specified fields. Where relevant information
is held deeper in the record, or outside of a specified field, a manual
assessment is usually required to retrieve that information.

It is my assessment that the cost of providing you with the information
requested would exceed the 'appropriate level' as set out in the Freedom
of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.

Based on 1,287 stop and searches conducted between March 2020 and August
2020 alone, my assessment is that it would cost 1,287 x 5 minutes each
(minimum) = over 107 hours at £25 per hour to respond to your request,
which exceeds the 'appropriate limit' (currently £450 for 'prescribed
costs').

[1]https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/north...

In view of the above, and in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, please take this letter as a Refusal Notice.

You may wish to refine and resubmit your request so that it reduces the
costs shown above and is then within the 'appropriate limit' shown above.
(I cannot think of a means to refine the request in order to provide the
information you are seeking) but if you would like some further
information about how to proceed with your request then please contact the
undersigned.

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.

I trust you find this information to be satisfactory but if you have any
further queries please do not hesitate to contact me. On behalf of
Northamptonshire Police I would like to apologise for the delay in getting
this information to you

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.

Yours sincerely

Gemma Barrie

C1374 Gemma Barrie| Freedom of Information Officer and Researcher

Force Information Unit | Professional Standards Department

Northamptonshire Police

Telephone: 101 | Ext No. 343701 - (If calling from outside
Northamptonshire, please call 03000 111 222)

Email: [2][email address]

Address: Force Headquarters, Wootton Hall, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton
NN4 0JQ

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Dear Ms Venables

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Our Ref: 005390/20

With reference to your e-mail received 30/09/2020 requesting information as reproduced below:

1. When did your force start the policy of recording misogyny as a hate crime?
2. I'd like to know how many misogyny hate crimes have been recorded since then? Please list each incident by date, including the details of the offence, and what the outcome was i.e. whether there was an arrest and charge.

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

Not all hate incidents will amount to criminal offences, but it is equally important that these are reported and recorded by the police.

1. Northamptonshire Police have recorded Gender Based Hostility Hate Crimes and Incidents since 2016 but not misogyny specifically

2. Data is based on Occurrence Created Date, and covers the period 2016-01 to 2020-10. Cancelled Records are excluded. Occurrences have been searched, filtered and included if the Local Qualifier of 'Gender Based Hostility' has been applied. MO searched for the term 'Misogyny' in the text.

OUTCOME

2017

2018

2019

2020

14: Victim declines/unable to support action to identify offender

1

15: Police - named suspect, victim supports but evidential difficulties

2

1

16: Victim declines/withdraws support - named suspect identified

1

1

1

2

18: Investigation complete no suspect identified

1

1

2

1

20: Other body/agency has investigation primacy

1

5: Offender has died

1

Hate Incident - Non-crime

9

4

Please be advised that for details of the offence, the amount of redaction necessary to remove exempt information and anonymise any remaining information subsequently renders the information useless.

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.

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. On behalf of Northamptonshire Police I would like to apologise for the delay in getting this information to you.

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.

Yours sincerely

Gemma Barrie
C1374 Gemma Barrie| Freedom of Information Officer and Researcher
Force Information Unit | Professional Standards Department
Northamptonshire Police

Telephone: 101 | Ext No. 343701/ 341172 - (If calling from outside Northamptonshire, please call 03000 111 222)
Email: [email address]<mailto:[email address]>
Address: Force Headquarters, Wootton Hall, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton NN4 0JQ

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