Coronavirus Measures Breached (55A/20)
Request
I would like to make the following request under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
- Between 23 March and 5th April (two-week period only) could you provide the number of 101 calls to your police force in relation to Covid 19 measures being breached?
- Between 23 March and 5th April (two-week period only) could you provide the number of 999 calls to your police force in relation to Covid 19 measures being breached?
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). In order to say what the types of call were would require a manual search of every relevant log which 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.
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