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Request
Q1. The number of incidents or crimes or reports received or attended by your police department referencing "sodium nitrite" or logged as relating to sodium nitrite. In each case, please include a brief description which summarises what happened. Please provide the results broken down by year for the past two years - 2023 and 2024, as well as the start of 2025, up to and including 10 February.
Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information
To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police.
I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.
Decision
Please note that we have received a similar FOI request which has already been responded to. A copy of that request and response can be found on the North Yorkshire Police website under the following link:
FOI Sodium Nitrite incidents (0450-2024/25) | North Yorkshire Police
I can confirm that in the period 28 August 2024 to 10 February 2025, there have been no incidents recorded with the key words ‘sodium nitrite’ or ‘sodium nitrate’ within the MO remarks/summary.
S21 – Information Reasonably Accessible by other Means, is therefore applied to you request. Section 21 is an absolute class based exemption and I am not required to consider the harm or public interest when applying this exemption.
Pursuant to Section 17(1) of the Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice in response to part of your request.
Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.