Intelligence Submissions (76A/22)

31 January 2022 | Other

Request

Response

This data has been presented in financial years below:

2010 – 2011	135,180
2015 – 2016	131,430
2019 – 2020	113,460
2020 – 2021	131,190

The figures would not include intelligence that is held in secure folders as these are not picked up by our search system.

This data below is presented in calendar years:

2000	No data
2001	No data
2002	36,792
2003	86,856
2004	107,324
2005	132,622
2006	131,817
2007	132,825
2008	130,123
2009	148,204
2010	128,702
2011	148,344
2012	131,439
2013	130,242
2014	116,865
2015	127,276
2016	122,572
2017	107,295
2018	105,203
2019	116,135
2020	127,071
2021	125,833

 

Data for periods 2002 to 2014 is accurate to +6 or -6 intelligence reports.

Data for 2015 onwards should be fully accurate.

The figures would not include intelligence that is held in secure folders as these are not picked up by our search system.

Please note that no inferences can be drawn by the count of Intelligence reports each force records per year. It also needs to be recognised that other information is held on various police systems, that by definition would not technically constitute an “Intelligence report” and therefore, this is not the sole means of holding important information about policing matters.

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 considered 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 considered 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.

As recommended as good practice by the Information Commissioner’s Office a version of this response may be published on the West Midlands Police website.

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