FOI 0189-2025/26 Equipment Budget

Request
Q1. How much of your constabulary's budget was spent on procuring restraints, tasers, and incapacitant chemicals from January 2020 to December 2024. Could I possibly receive these figures broken down by type of equipment and by year, please. 

Q2. How much of your constabulary's budget was spend on training to use each of these types of equipment from January 2020 to December 2024. Could I please receive this information broken down by training for each type of equipment, and by year.

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 some of the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.  

Decision
I have today decided to disclose the following information to you.

Q1. The spend relating to Handcuffs, PAVA and Tasers/Conducted Energy Devices can be located using the below link:

Procurement | North Yorkshire Police

From the above link you will see that “The In-tend Procurement Hub is an online information hub aimed at improving visibility and access to contract and procurement information for buyers within the Emergency Services in the United Kingdom. In compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, the Sell2UK website acts as a search facility enabling anyone to search and find a list of awarded contracts for each member authority.”

By following the Sell2UK link above a Freedom of Information applicant can search details of all awarded contracts published by North Yorkshire Police, which can then be exported into Excel format.

As such, this information is exempt from disclosure pursuant to Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act) on the basis that it is reasonably accessible by other means. Please see the below exemption explanation.

North Yorkshire Police has incurred additional spend on equipment as follows:

Q2. No information held. All training is internally provided and as such is not quantifiable.

Section 17 of the Act requires North Yorkshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

Section 21 – Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means
Section 21 is an absolute class based exemption and I am not required to consider the harm or public interest when applying this exemption.

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.