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Covid FPNs (1299A/21)

Request

1) Can you please tell me how many individuals your police force has issued with Fixed Penalty Notices for non-compliance with covid-19 testing requirements on returning to the UK after travelling abroad since January 1, 2021, to September 8, 2021.

2) Can you please tell me how many individuals your police force has issued with Fixed Penalty Notices for non-compliance with requirement to quarantine on returning to the UK after travelling abroad since January 1, 2021, to September 8, 2021.

3) Can you please tell me how many individuals your police force has cautioned for non-compliance with covid-19 testing requirements on returning to the UK after travelling abroad since January 1, 2021, to September 8, 2021.

4) Can you please tell me how many individuals your police force has cautioned for non-compliance with requirements to quarantine on returning to the UK after travelling abroad since January 1, 2021, to September 8, 2021.

5) Can you please tell me how many individuals have been visited or contacted on suspicion of non-compliance with covid-19 testing requirements on returning to the UK after travelling abroad since January 1, 2021, to September 8, 2021 but faced no action.

6) Can you please tell me how many individuals in total your police force has visited on suspicion of non-compliance with requirements to quarantine on returning to the UK after travelling abroad since January 1, 2021, to September 8, 2021 but faced no sanction.

Response

Please find attached our response.

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

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