FOI Naloxone (624-2024/25)

Request

Q1. Are any operational North Yorkshire Police officers trained to carry / administer Naloxone while conducting operational duties?
Q2. If any officers carry Naloxone how many officers in North Yorkshire are trained?
Q3. If officers are trained to administer Naloxone what date was this brought into force
Q4. At what expense is it to equip officers with Naloxone
Q5. If there are no officers trained are there plans to equip officers with Naloxone?
Q6. If officers are trained to administer Naloxone how many times has this been deployed?
Q7. If Naloxone has been deployed how successful have the results been?
Q8. How many calls have North Yorkshire Police officers attended that are related to drug overdoses year by year between 2019 - 2024?
Q9. How many calls relating to drug overdoses between 2019 - 2024 proved fatal?
Q10. If officers have been trained to administer Naloxone has there been an increase in demand for calls relating to drug overdose and have other services such as NHS relied on police attendance at an increased rate since it’s implementation?
Q11. How many officers in each of the North Yorkshire Police districts are trained with Naloxone? (if any)
Q12. Approximately how many officers are equipped with Naloxone within North Yorkshire at any one time? (If any)
Q13. What training is required and how long does it take to train officers in the safe deployment of Naloxone?
Q14. Are the officers who are trained with Naloxone in specialist roles such as operations? EG: Firearms (tac med)
Q15. Are there any plans to incorporate the training of Naloxone into police officer's mandatory annual first aid course?

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.

In relation to Q8 & Q9, in order to retrieve the requested information, it would be necessary to manually review all Sudden Death, Concern for Safety & Collapse/Illness/Injury/Trapped occurrences, which would involve thousands of reports 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, we may be able to provide information for the rest of your request if you resubmit your request and omit Q8 & Q9. 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.