FOI Amount of antisocial behaviour incidents recorded between 2010-2022 (0742-2022/23)

Request

1. How many incidences of antisocial behaviour were recorded by your force in every year between 2010 and 2022?

2. How many of the above incidences of antisocial behaviour recorded by your force resulted in:

• ASB civil injunctions

• Community protection notices

• Public space protection orders

• Dispersal powers

• closure powers

• criminal behaviour orders
• no further action

3. In how many instances did your force apply, or encourage the prosecution to apply, for a Criminal Behaviour Order?

 

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 usually required to retrieve that information. In circumstances where a Community Protection Notice has been considered or issued, a ‘multi agency flag’ is created. Therefore, an interrogation and manual assessment of each incident of anti-social behaviour would be required to determine if any resulted in the above-mentioned notices or powers being issued. This would involve reading through thousands of reports for the time period requested, which would exceed the time limit allowed under the Act. 

Please note, in addition to the above a number of the powers you identified in question 2 of your request are not implemented by the police. To assist with your request criminal behaviour orders are applied for on conviction at court and therefore, to determine the number of orders requested or applied for would engage section 12 as a manual read would be required of every court result. Secondly, in North Yorkshire, Public Space Protection Orders and Community Protection Notices are local authority led and then enforced by the police.

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). We may be able to provide some of the requested information specifically in response to question 1 and information relating to dispersal notices, civil injunctions, and closure notices/orders. 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.