Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Thank you for your email received today in which you make a request for information that Northumbria Police may hold in accordance with the Freedom Of Information Act 2000

We are in the process of dealing with your request and a response should be provided to you by 01/06/2018 which is in accordance with the legislation.

Yours sincerely

Information Management Unit`

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Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

Thank you for your e mail dated 1 May 2018 in which you made a request for
access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria Police.

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of
access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority
(including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

Please provide

(a) the number of motorists who have paid recovery and storage charges to
retrieve their stolen vehicles, and

(b) the amount of money motorists have paid in recovery and storage
charges to retrieve their stolen vehicles, by your police force in each
year since the current statutory charges were set in 2008?

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I
provide a response for your attention.

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the
Finance Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the
information you have requested is held in part by Northumbria Police.

Please note that we only hold records for complete years from 2010,
therefore, we no information held for previous years.

*Additionally, we do not hold the number of motorists as the number  of
‘Recoveries  ‘ in the table will include the  Owners, Finance Companies
and Insurance companies.

With the above in mind, I am able to disclose the located information to
you as follows.

Number of Payments for Payments for
Year Recoveries* Removal Storage
2010 772 £130,300 £33,940
2011 795 £133,100 £31,990
2012 587 £103,850 £20,815
2013 597 £101,900 £29,160
2014 495 £85,400 £22,460
2015 602 £103,300 £28,230
2016 661 £113,000 £32,745
2017 656 £116,550 £31,845

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.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual
property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be
strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as
amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not
re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

You may be interested to know that Northumbria Police routinely publish
information via the Disclosure Log. The aim of the Disclosure Log is to
promote openness and transparency by voluntarily placing information into
the public arena.

The Disclosure Log contains copies of some of the information that has
been disclosed by Northumbria 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]http://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedom...

How to complain

If you are unhappy with our decision or do not consider that we have
handled your request properly and we are unable to resolve this issue
informally, you are entitled to make a formal complaint to us under our
complaints procedure, attached below

[2]http://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedom...

If you are still unhappy after we have investigated your complaint and
reported to you the outcome, you may complain directly to the Information
Commissioner’s Office and request that they investigate to ascertain
whether we have dealt with your request in accordance with the Act.

Yours sincerely

Michael Cleugh

Data Protection and Disclosure Advisor

Direct Dial: 0191 2956941

[NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED]

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