FOI Officers With No Arrests (0400-2022/23)

Request

1. The number of FTE police officers employed by your police force in the 12 months to March 2022.
2. The number of FTE police officers employed by your police force in the 12 months to March 2022 who made 0 (zero) arrests during that period.
3. The average number of arrests for FTE police officers employed by your police force in the 12 months to March 2022.
4. If possible under Section 12 of the FOIA, the number of FTE police officers employed by your police force in the 12 months to March 2022 who made 0 (zero) arrests during that period broken down by police officer function (in line with in Table F1 of the Police Workforce Statistics dataset: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fpolice-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2021&data=05%7C01%7CCivilDisclosure%40northyorkshire.police.uk%7Cc08916b4a17843404c8508da7a07e616%7C2c84bc9193af476e9721cdad67cb3ead%7C0%7C1%7C637956471595185887%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=CsJYlu6xmzd8C57pwwnYS6v5G%2FAfbXFXFXJRQ%2Fbm%2BJE%3D&reserved=0)

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.

1. The total number of Police Officers that were employed by North Yorkshire Police on the 31st March 2022 is 1614.
2. The total number of Police Officers that were employed by North Yorkshire Police on the 31st March 2022 who made zero arrests is 573*
3. We do not provide averages as the data can be misinterpreted so this question cannot be answered.
4.  

Function Sub Group Name	Count
Casualty Reduction Partnership	2
Central Communications Unit	24
Civil Contingencies and Events	12
Criminal Justice	6
Criminal Justice Arrangements Command Team and Support Overheads	4
Custody	13
Cyber Crime	7
Dealing with the Public Command Team and Support Overheads	14
Dogs Section	8
Economic Crime (including Regional Asset Recovery Team)	3
Firearms Unit	4
Force Command	14
Incident (Response) Management	41
Information Communication Technology	1
Intelligence Analysis / Threat Assessments	21
Intelligence Gathering	22
Investigations Command Team and Support Overheads	6
Local Command Team and Support Overheads	9
Local Investigation/Prisoner Processing	36
Major Investigation Unit	12
Monitoring Dangerous and Repeat Offenders	4
Neighbourhood Policing	38
Operational Support Team and Support Overheads	3
Other (any other role not covered by CIPFA codes or those on long-term absence)	49
Other Forensic Services	8
Performance Review / Corporate Development	4
Professional Standards	7
Protecting Vulnerable People (PVP)	12
Road policing Command Team and Support Overheads	2
Secondments (out of force)	24
Serious & Organised Crime Unit	4
Specialist Community Liaison	49
Support to Associations and Trade Unions	3
Traffic Units	26
Training	81
Grand Total	573

* There a several reasons why an officer may not show as making an arrest for the period 1st April 2021 -  31st March 2022, such as: The officer may be on restricted duties and therefore not operational, on career break, secondment, long term sick, a student officer, a senior officer, be in a role that does not require them to be in a position that would make an arrest. This list isn’t a definitive list of reasons but provides some context on why an officer may not make an arrest.

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.