Restraining Orders (351A/24)
Request
Restraining orders
- In each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, how many breaches of restraining orders were recorded by your force?
- Please provide data on the number of reports of breaches of restraining orders that resulted in a “no further action” outcome in the year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
- Please provide the number of reports of breaches of restraining orders that resulted in a charge outcome in the year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
Domestic violence protection orders
- In each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, how many breaches of domestic violence protection orders were recorded by your force
- Please provide the number of reports of breaches of domestic violence protection orders that resulted in a “no further action” outcome in the year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
- Please provide the number of reports of breaches of domestic violence protection orders that resulted in a charge outcome in the year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
Non-molestation orders
- In each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, how many breaches of non-molestation orders were recorded by your force?
- Please provide the number of reports of breaches of non-molestation orders that resulted in a “no further action” outcome in the year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
- Please provide the number of reports of breaches of non-molestation orders that resulted in a charge outcome in the year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
Stalking protection orders
- In each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, how many breaches of stalking protection orders were recorded by your force?
- Please provide the number of reports of breaches of stalking protection orders that resulted in a “no further action” outcome in the year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
- Please provide the number of reports of breaches of stalking protection orders that resulted in a charge outcome in the year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
Response
Our data are not organised in such a way as to allow us to provide this information within the appropriate (cost) limit within the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (see ‘Reason for Decision’ below).
Although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, as a gesture of goodwill I have supplied information, relative to your request, retrieved before it was realised that the fees limit would be exceeded (see attached). I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for the remainder of the request.
REASON FOR DECISION
Please note that researching each individual case would exceed the appropriate limit (FOIA, s.12). We are not able to split DVPO’s from the DVPN’s as the information is collected together and it would need a manual search to identify whether there were any PO breaches. If we allowed 5 minutes per record this would equate to in excess of 23 hours and would exceed the FOI time limit.
The cost of compliance with the whole of your request is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond, i.e. the cost of locating and retrieving the information would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12(1) of the FOI Act 2000. For West Midlands Police, the appropriate limit is set at £450, as prescribed by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004, S.I. 3244.