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Request:
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from all UK Police Forces Dog Sections
Please may you provide me with:
Q1. How many police dogs are currently operational 2024
Q2. How many police dogs are currently not operational due to injury, ailment, sickness 2024
Q3. How many police dogs in training 2024
Q4. How many police dogs procured from 2010 to 2020.
Q5. How many police dogs were purchased from breeders in the uk. How many from the EU
Q6. How many police dogs were bred from Police breeding project
Q7. How many police dogs were gifted or purchased from uk dog rescues and which rescues
Q8. How many police dogs failed to meet standards. Did they get returned to vendor, breeder or rescue
Q9. How many police dogs have been successfully rehomed 2010 - 2024
Q10. How many police dogs failed rehome and were they returned to unit or euthanised
Q11. How many police dogs have been euthanised due to 1. Sickness, injury, ailment. 2.Behvaiour, safety, treachery
Q12. What is the current budget for rehoming 2024
Q13. How many registered clinical behaviourists work with rehoming police dogs 2024
Q14. How many police dog have been euthanised due to accident, injury or ailment on duty 2010-2024
Q15. How many police dogs died in kennels, vehicles, in enclosures 2010-2014
Q16. How many police dogs died on duty 2010-2024
Q17. How many police dogs were rehomed to their handlers or families 2010-2024
Q18. How many police dogs were rehomed to the general public 2010-2024
Response:
Extent of Searches to Locate Information
Following receipt of your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police to locate relevant information.
Decision
I am not obliged to provide you with a response to your request pursuant to Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). Please note that when one part of your request falls under Section 12, we are not obliged to review the rest of the questions and the whole request is therefore exempt.
Section 12(1) applies to your request as the cost of complying with your request is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond i.e. the cost of identifying and retrieving any relevant information exceeds the ‘appropriate level’ as stated in the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Due to the nature of our recording systems the information requested, if held, is not in an easily retrievable format. Our information retrieval process generally relies on a computer ran report which captures any information recorded upon the surface of a record or within specified fields. Where relevant information is held deeper in the record, or outside of a specified field, a manual assessment is required to retrieve that information.
Due to current recording systems only dating back 3 years, in order to retrieve the requested information for the period prior to 2021, it would be necessary to manually review all records within that timeframe to establish which, if any are relevant to your request, which would exceed the time limit allowed under the Act.
Pursuant to Section 17(5) of the Freedom of Information Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice.
Pursuant to Section 16 of the Act I am required to offer you advice and assistance with regarding to refining your request to within the ‘appropriate limit’ (time/cost limit). However, may be able to provide some information in relation to your request if you refine your timeframe. If you wish to discuss this please do not hesitate to contact me.
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.