FOI Forensic Collision Investigators (135-2024/25)
Request
Q1. How many qualified Forensic Collision Investigators have been held by your force annually from 2009 to the present? Please can the data be provided annually.
Q2. How many live crash scenes were attended by your force annually from 2009 to the present, and of these, how many were attended by a Forensic Collision Investigator? Please can the data be provided annually.
Q3. How many serious injury road traffic collision cases were investigated by FCI’s annually from 2009 to the present? Please can the data be broken down annually.
Q4. How many fatal road traffic collision cases were investigated by FCIs annually from 2009 to the present? Please can the data be broken down annually.
Response
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
I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.
I note that from 2022, North Yorkshire Police joined a West Yorkshire Police run collaborative Forensic Collision Investigation service. All four Yorkshire forces currently share the use of 40 Forensic Collision Investigators, 3 Assistant Forensic Collision Investigators plus 5 Supervisors who are also operationally competent.
Q1. Please see the table below which details the number of Forensic Collision Investigators employed by North Yorkshire Police from 01 April 2009 to 01 April 2024, broken down by year. I note that the counts provided are given as of the 1st of April for each year.
|
Date |
Count |
|
01/04/2009 |
5 |
|
01/04/2010 |
6 |
|
01/04/2011 |
6 |
|
01/04/2012 |
5 |
|
01/04/2013 |
4 |
|
01/04/2014 |
5 |
|
01/04/2015 |
6 |
|
01/04/2016 |
5 |
|
01/04/2017 |
4 |
|
01/04/2018 |
4 |
|
01/04/2019 |
5 |
|
01/04/2020 |
5 |
|
01/04/2021 |
7 |
|
01/04/2022 |
6 |
|
01/04/2023 |
3 |
|
01/04/2024 |
4 |
Q2. North Yorkshire Police do not hold the requested information from 2009, however the Regional RSSS team have provided the below figures from 2022 to 16 May 2024.
|
Date |
Fatal |
Life Threatening |
|
2022 |
36 |
28 |
|
2023 |
45 |
36 |
|
2024 |
11 |
16 |
I note that this is the number of times someone from the RSSS has attended at a crash scene within the North Yorkshire Policing area.
Q3. North Yorkshire Police do not hold the requested information from 2009. The RSSS regional FCI team do not generally attend serious injury only collisions.
Q4. North Yorkshire Police do not hold the requested information from 2009. The RSSS regional team have provided the figures held from 2022 for Q2.
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.