Prostitution related arrests in 2008

The request was successful.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please supply the following information under the Freedom of
Information Act.

1) How many people were arrested for soliciting prostitutes or kerb
crawling by Staffordshire police in each month of 2008.

3) Of those arrested in each month the number who were a) released
without charge

b) cautioned

c) charged

d) fined

e) If none of the above can be applied to each arrest I would like
to know how the crime was dealt with.

I look forward to receiving your reply within the 20 day statutory
time limit.

Yours faithfully

Ricki Dewsbury

Staffordshire Police

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Dear Ricki

Reference No: 1437/09

Thank you for your request which will be dealt with under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Staffordshire Police may be unable to achieve
this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised
time-scale at the earliest opportunity.

Regards
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Steven W. Clark
Freedom of Information Officer
Staffordshire Police
Ext. 2411 Direct Dial: 01785 232411

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2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please supply the following information under the Freedom of
Information Act.

1) How many people were arrested for soliciting prostitutes or kerb
crawling by Staffordshire police in each month of 2008.

3) Of those arrested in each month the number who were a) released
without charge

b) cautioned

c) charged

d) fined

e) If none of the above can be applied to each arrest I would like
to know how the crime was dealt with.

I look forward to receiving your reply within the 20 day statutory
time limit.

Yours faithfully

Ricki Dewsbury

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Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to remind you that you have broken the law by not responding to my freedom of information request within the 20 day statutory time limit.

Please supply the information that I have requested promptly before a formal complaint is made to the information commissioner.

I have included a link to the Sexual Offences Act 1985 - which details the kerb crawling offence - should you need any further guidance when compiling the data I have requested.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/A...

Yours sincerely,

R Dewsbury

Staffordshire Police

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Dear Ricky.

I beg to differ. Under the Freedom of Information Act a public authority
has 20 working days in which to respond to any request for information
made under the Act. As is stated in Section 10 of the legislation:- "(1)
Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a public authority must comply with
section 1(1) promptly and in any event not later than the twentieth
working day following the day of receipt."

This request was received on the 20th April 2009, the 20th working day
from the day after receipt would take us to the 18th May 2009 which is the
day on which your response is due.

I shall pass your comments onto the decision maker dealing with your
request.

Regards
===============================================
Steven W. Clark
Freedom of Information Officer
Staffordshire Police
Ext. 2411 Direct Dial: 01785 232411

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really need to print this email?

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to remind you that you have broken the law by not
responding to my freedom of information request within the 20 day
statutory time limit.

Please supply the information that I have requested promptly before
a formal complaint is made to the information commissioner.

I have included a link to the Sexual Offences Act 1985 - which
details the kerb crawling offence - should you need any further
guidance when compiling the data I have requested.

[1]http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/A...

Yours sincerely,

R Dewsbury

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Staffordshire Police

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Dear Sir,

With reference to the above mentioned FOI request please find attached
spreadsheet with the data.

Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide
statistics and information to government bodies and the recording criteria
is set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures
are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data
and information. It should be noted that for these reasons this force's
response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with
any other response you may receive.

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and
complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been
extracted from large disparate administrative data systems generated by
the courts and police forces. 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 those data are used.

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 those data are 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.

APPEALS PROCEDURE

Should you be dissatisfied with the outcome of your information request,
you do have the right of complaint under section 17(7) of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. If you wish to appeal this decision, please inform
me in writing. Your application and the decision will be reviewed by a
Senior Decision Maker who was not involved in the original decision.

This decision maker will review your case and they will either, uphold,
amend or overrule my decision. Should this not resolve the matter to your
satisfaction, you will then have the right to appeal to the Information
Commissioner, who regulates compliance with the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

Staffordshire Police in complying with their statutory duty under sections
1 and 11 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to release the enclosed
information will not breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

However, the rights of the copyright owner of the enclosed information
will continue to be protected by law. Applications for the written
permission of the copyright owner to reproduce any part of the attached
information should be addressed to:

The Force Solicitor, Staffordshire Police Headquarters, Cannock Road,
Stafford, ST17 0QG.

Please contact me if you require any further information.

Regards,

Diane

Diane Millward
Deputy Force Crime Registrar,
Staffordshire Police Headquarters,
Cannock Road,
Stafford.

Tel No - 01785 23(2358)

E-mail - [email address]

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Mr Ormerod left an annotation ()

Actually, sorry to be pedantic, but I beg to differ further! If the request was received on 20th April, the deadline would be 19th May, not the 18th.

Dear Diane Millward,

Thank you for the time and effort you have put into replying to my FOI request. I am very grateful and look forward to any future requests being dealt with as thoroughly.
Many thanks,
R Dewsbury

Yours sincerely,

R Dewsbury