Request
For each of the following calendar years, the number of “citizen’s arrests” made in your police force area (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 so far).
Please also break the number of arrests down by the type of crime, see below for categories.
If the breakdown by crime type is not possible, please at least provide the overall number of citizen’s arrests made in each year.
When reporting 2018 I will take the date of your reply as the date to which the figures are correct unless you specify otherwise.
Crime Type 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Homicide
Offences involving knives and sharp instruments
Offences involving firearms
Other violent crime
Sexual offences
Criminal damage and arson
Vehicle theft offences
Burglary
Other household theft
Theft from the person
Other theft of personal property
Bicycle theft
Shoplifting
All other theft offences
Robbery
Fraud
Computer misuse
Public order offences
Drug offences
Possession of weapons
Unknown
Other category
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).
I am unable to suggest any practical way in which your request may be modified in order to satisfy your query or bring it within the 18 hours stipulated by the Regulations. I am however willing to consider any refinements that you are able to make to your request, in accordance with Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act. If you would like to look into refining your request please contact me.
REASON FOR DECISION
Please note that researching each individual case would exceed the appropriate limit (FOIA, s.12 (1)). We are unable to find anywhere in our systems that this information would be recorded.
Although people can technically make a ‘citizen’s arrest’ they would still have to hand the person over to the police for them to be formally arrested, to locate and retrieve this information would involve a manual search.
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