Freedom of Information Disclosure Log

RE: Request under the Freedom of Information Act (2000)

Dear Information Team

This is an information request relating to the seizure of dogs under the provisions of the Dangerous Dogs Act (1991).

Please include the information for each of the following periods; 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21:

• The annual cost to the police force for seizing dogs under the Dangerous Dogs Act (1991) broken down by the cost of kennelling, the cost of veterinary treatment, and the cost of destroying the dogs
• The number of dogs seized under the act per year

If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.

I want to know how much money that Gwent PCC has given to Race Council Cymru

1. How many people, including full-time, part-time and temporary employees, are currently recorded as being based at your main office, either by having a desk or a security pass or any other metric that you use?
2. Of these, how many were recorded as having entered the building on the following days:
   1. Monday 6th September 2021
   2. Monday 13th December 2021
   3. Monday 24th January 2022

From March 1st 2021 to January 31st 2022, please could you supply the following information for the Chartist Bridge, Blackwood.

• Date and time of any incident including a brief summary, categorised as below.
• Confirmed incidents where individuals have committed suicide and including incidents where individuals have survived jumps for the bridge.
• Serious incidents where individuals have found to be located on a parapet ledge or are on the bridge threatening to jump and who have to be restrained/persuaded not to do so. This includes incidents where individuals have been talked back or arrested under section 136 of the Mental Health Act
• Less serious incidents e.g. where individuals may be on the parapet ledge or other dangerous location but have no intention of jumping from the bridge

RE: Request under the Freedom of Information Act (2000)

Dear Information Team

This is an information request relating to data released today on seizures of cannabis https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seizures-of-drugs-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-2021/seizures-of-drugs-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-2021 .

Please include the information for the 2020-21 financial year:

• The estimated cost to the police force of enforcing cannabis laws
• The estimated market value of the cannabis seized

This is an information request relating to time and money spent campaigning against, and monitoring and responding to offensive social media content.

Please provide the following information for the financial years 2020 to 2021, and 2021 to the present date:

• The number of times individuals have been interviewed by your force regarding offensive social media posts, and the typical length of these meetings.
• Time and money spent on campaigns specifically targeted against hate crimes and offensive posts, an example would be the advertising van used by Merseyside police.
• Time and money spent collecting, removing, and investigating posters, leaflets or similar material with offensive content, as well as a brief summary of their content.

By 'offensive' social media posts, I refer to anything encompassed by the Communications Act (2003), which specifies "A person is guilty of an offence if he... send by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".

I wish to make the following request under the Freedom of Information Act.

Please could you provide a full list of property owned by the Police and Crime Commissioner with addresses, could you please include details where joint ownership or similar agreement exists between the PCC and other organisations such as a neighbouring police force.

Please could you provide a full list of property rented or leased by the Police and Crime Commissioner with addresses, used for a policing purpose or residential use by your police force.

In the past 12 months has your force rented any properties on a short term basis and if so could you please provide details including rent paid and any deposits or similar provided as part of the rental or lease of the property.

During the same period has the PCC disposed of any buildings previously used for policing or in support of policing, if so please provide details of the building(s) disposed of.

Can you provide details of how buildings and estate are managed by the PCC on behalf of Policing within your force area.

For clarity when I refer to property I mean buildings such as bases, offices, police stations, or other buildings used in support of a policing purpose.

I note you collect Equal Opportunities information in your job application process.  Under the FOI, please provide the total number of applicants for the past calendar year, financial year or the most recent 12 month period, whichever is most convenient to you, disaggregated by the sex of the applicant

Please provide the following information for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:

• The value of grants made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all grants separately.
• The value of loans made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all loans separately.

The payments made to charities and third sector organisations relate to the following only:

• Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)
• Independent Sage
• NHS Confederation
• Keep our NHS public
• SOS NHS
• Care and Support Workers Organise
• UNITED VOICES OF THE WORLD
• Health Campaigns Together
• Doctors for the NHS
• We Own It
• The People's Assembly
• Zero Covid Coalition
• Health Campaign Together
• Docs Not Cops
• British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
• Association of Pakistani Physicians of Northern Europe
• Royal College of General Practitioners
• Royal College of Ophthalmology
• Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

I would like to request the following information:

1. Please confirm whether your police force has considered entering into a collaboration agreement pursuant to section 22A of the Police Act 1996 (as amended by the PRSRA) to establish a Forensic Capability Network (FCN).
2. Please confirm whether, as a result of such consideration, that such an agreement has been signed and if not please supply the reasons for not entering such an agreement.
3. If, such an agreement has been entered, please supply the date on which the agreement came into legal force.
4. Please confirm whether your police force has agreed that the Forensic Capability Network will prepare the next round of contracts for physical forensic services as part of their "next generation procurement" as detailed here on the FCN website https://www.fcn.police.uk/news/2021-11/seven-year-plan-next-generation-procurement-physical-forensics-goes-market , in other words, is your police force using this process or something else to procure such services?
5. If your police force is using something other than the Forensic Capabilty Network's process described in (4), please provide information as to what that process is.