Section 127 arrests and prosecutions

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Dear North Yorkshire Police,

Please can you provide the annual count for your Constabulary of arrests, charges, number of assailants released on bail or released without charge, and successful and non-successful prosecutions (those that went to Court but were dismissed) under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 from its introduction in 2003 to date - specifically with reference to social media communications, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, etc.

If 2018 information is not yet fully available, please identify what is currently available and provide as much as possible if you could.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Morris
Politics Student

Civil Disclosure, North Yorkshire Police

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Dear North Yorkshire Police,

Upon receiving information from another Constabulary, I would like to amend this FOI in order to keep it within your time limits, and to enable it to be easier for you to work with.
If you use the Home Office Counting Rules, please use 8/72: ‘Sending letters etc with intent to cause anxiety.’ Again, I would like the number of arrests and charges per annum from 2003 to date. I understand that this may not have been a notifiable crime prior to 2015, but I would still like the number of arrests and numbers in custody prior to this time, categorised under this 8/72 counting rule; as well as the crime count for 2015 to date (as well as arrest and charge count – just to clarify).
Please ignore the part of the FOI requesting information on prosecution. I will attempt to request this separately from HMCTS.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Morris

Civil Disclosure, North Yorkshire Police

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Dear North Yorkshire Police,

The legislated time for a response to this FOI request has now passed. Can you provide me with an update please?

Yours faithfully,

Alex Morris

Civil Disclosure, North Yorkshire Police

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Civil Disclosure, North Yorkshire Police

Good morning

Please accept our apologies that we haven't yet responded to your FOI request ref 1291.2018-19. We have received a large number of requests this year which is causing a delay in response time. We will respond as soon as we can.

Kind regards

Sarah Saunders
Collar Number 4868
Administrative Assistant (Civil Disclosure)
Joint Corporate Legal Services
North Yorkshire Police HQ
Alverton Court
Crosby Road
Northallerton
North Yorkshire
DL6 1BF

Tel: 01609 643526

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Dear Civil Disclosure,

Apologies, but it's now over a month since the last response. I'd appreciate an update please and an estimated time to receive the information.

Yours sincerely,

Alex Morris

Civil Disclosure, North Yorkshire Police

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Civil Disclosure, North Yorkshire Police

Good morning,

Thank you for your email below.

The Civil Disclosure Unit does strive to meet the 20 day deadline date; however our department deals with a variety of different work areas and at present we have experienced a number of workload increases across the Unit, which has affected our turnaround times. I can therefore only apologise again for the delay in your reply.

I will review your request today and endeavour to response over the next few days.

Regards

Caroline Williams
Legal Officer (Civil Disclosure)
Collar Number 5982
Joint Corporate Legal Services
North Yorkshire Police HQ
Alverton Court
Crosby Road
Northallerton
North Yorkshire
DL6 1BF

DX68810 Northallerton 2

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Williams, Caroline, North Yorkshire Police

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Dear Mr Morris,

 

Please find attached a reply to your Freedom of Information request
1291.2018-19.

 

Regards

 

Caroline Williams

Legal Officer (Civil Disclosure)

Collar Number 5982

Joint Corporate Legal Services

North Yorkshire Police HQ

Alverton Court

Crosby Road

Northallerton

North Yorkshire

DL6 1BF

 

DX68810 Northallerton 2

 

Dial 101, press option 2 and ask for me by my full name or collar number. 
If using my collar number, please state each number individually.

 

[1]www.northyorkshire.police.uk

 

Committed to the Code of Ethics

 

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