Foreign Nationals (1521A/23)
Request
Q1, How many alleged offences have been recorded as crimes committed by foreign nationals in your force area 2022/23?
Q2, If possible could you provide a breakdown of these crimes and the countries these individuals are from?
Q3, How many alleged offences have been recorded as crimes committed by foreign nationals in your force area 2021/22?
Q4, If possible could you provide a breakdown of these crimes and the countries these individuals are from?
Q5, How many alleged offences have been recorded as crimes committed by foreign nationals in your force area 2020/21?
Q6, If possible could you provide a breakdown of these crimes and the countries these individuals are from?
Overall annual figures required please.
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).
The term “Foreign National” is not recorded in a mandatory field that we can search for. Therefore, it would mean that a manual search of all crime for the period stated would be required to locate any data if there were any contained within the modus operandi or investigation notes.
This exceeds the 18 hours for the purpose of the FOI Act.
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 confirming or denying that the information is held would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12(2) 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.
Further information on section 12 of FOI is available here:
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