NPCC - up to £1,000 a month to kennel a dangerous dog. Your costs?

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Dear Hertfordshire Constabulary,

The NPCC has revealed that between 'February and September 2024, policing has seized over 4,586 suspected S1 dogs throughout England and Wales.':

https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/pol...

1. Please provide the number of S1 dogs you seized between February and September 2024.

2. Please provide the number of dogs you kennelled in each month between February 2024 to September 2024.

The NPCC has also revealed that it can cost up to £1,000 per month to kennel a dog.

3. Please provide the total amount you spent kennelling dogs in each month between February 2024 and September 2024.

4. Please provide the total amounts you spent on (i) food and (ii) care in respect of kennelled dogs in each month between February 2024 and September 2024.

5 Please provide the names of all businesses/organisations you used to kennel dogs between February 2024 and September 2024..

Yours faithfully,

J Roberts

Our ref: FOI2025/01666

Dear J Roberts,

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Yours sincerely,

Tara Egan

FOI Team,

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Dear J Roberts,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 24th
February.

Yours sincerely,

Tara Egan