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1. How many Registered Sex Offenders (RSOs) are currently being monitored by Dorset Police?

2. Of those, how many have moved from the address they are supposed to be living at in accordance with the Sex Offenders' Register without informing Dorset Police? ie their current whereabouts are unknown

3. Of those who have been found to have moved from their designated address without informing you, how many were classed as very high risk, how many were high risk, how many were medium risk and how many were low risk?

4. How long is it since each of these "missing" RSOs was known to have been living at their designated address?

5. Have the details of any of these "missing" RSOs been passed to other police forces and if so how many?

1. How many police officers were involved in total?
2. How many days did the operation last?

The number of times that your force has granted authority under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIPA) Act 2000 to view "private" pages on Facebook in each of the last three years. (I would prefer figures in financial years, if possible)

With regard to two incidents of public disorder at Stokes Croft in Bristol on 21/28 April, I would like to know:

1. Did you have officers from your force involved, and if so, how many? 

2. Have you made a claim for costs to Avon and Somerset Police and how much have you claimed for providing resources?

3. If you did make a claim to Avon and Somerset Police, on what date was this claim for costs made?

The name of every suspected homicide (murder or manslaughter) victim aged between 10 and 19 years old investigated by your force between December 2009 and July 2011

The date of birth of the victim if available (if unavailable then please provide the age)
The date of the suspected homicide.

1. Information on stop and search under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

2. Information on stop and search under section 23 of the Misuse of Drugs Act

3. Information on stop and search under section 47 of the Firearms Act4. Information on stop and search under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice & Public

5. Information on stop and search under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000

How much does it cost to police a) football matches b) gay pride events and c) other special events? Philip would like information for the last 3 financial years.

In the last 3 years, how many times has an 'executive authority' been authorised to conduct surveillance against police officers.

Please provide details of the misconduct alleged and the outcome of each operation with regards to any sanction imposed.

Please provide a breakdown of the number of unsolved murders that are at least 6 months old on your books.

Please include: A. The date recorded, B. The names of the individual, C. Brief circumstances of the murder.

Please provide a copy of any correspondence between your Force written by ACPO level officers to the Home Secretary or National ACPO office for the period 6 August 2011 to 26 August 2011 involving any aspects of riots and riot policing.

1. Has your police force retained any human tissue samples or body parts during the past 25 years without the knowledge of families? (a simple yes/no is required for this question).

2. Please tell me the number of samples which have been kept. If possible, please break this down by year. (Please answer a total number here)

3. Please categorise what kinds of tissue samples or body parts have been kept by your force. (Break down the types of samples kept)

4. Please tell me if you have had any complaints about this practice from families of victims.

5. If yes to Q4, please tell me how many complaints you have had and the nature of these complaints.

1. The number of occasions where this Police Authority requested CCTV footage from local government authorities or private businesses for the purposes of prosecution or investigation of a crime for the periods of 1 September 2008 to 31 August 2009, 1 September 2009 to 31 August 2010 and 1 September 2010 to 31 August 2011.

2. The number of times the requested CCTV footage from local government authorities or private businesses for the purposes of prosecution or investigation of a crime was released for the periods of 1 September 2008 to 31 August 2009, 1 September 2009 to 31 August 2010 and 1 September 2010 to 31 August 2011.

3. A breakdown of which bodies the CCTV footage was requested in terms of local government authorities or private businesses or other public body with a general specification of which one.

1. How many doors did your force make secure (board up) between 1st January 2010 until 1st Jan 2011 after forcing entry for whatever reason.

2. How much did your force pay external companies, for the securing of doors, during the period 1st January 2010 until 1st Jan 2011, after forcing entry for whatever reason?

3. What responsibility does your force have in relation to the securing of properties after entry has been forced for whatever reason?

1. How many children and/or incidents under the age of 16 were reported missing to the police in your constabulary area between 6th April 2010 – 5th April 2011?

2. How many children under the age of 16 received a visit from a member of your constabulary following a running away incident, where the purpose of the visit was to check the child was ‘safe and well’ and to establish whether they had suffered any harm or abuse between 6th April 2010 – 5th April 2011? If it is not possible to provide this information for the time period specified, please supply details for most recent time period for which this information exists. All children under the age of 16 for which a Missing Persons report is filed are visited by a member of Dorset Police following the individual’s return, in order to conduct a ‘Safe and Well’ check; therefore please refer to Q1.

3. If it is not possible to provide this information for any period, please provide all details of existing procedures which a member of your constabulary must follow when dealing with a running away incident. Please refer to Q1 & Q2; this question does not apply.

2012

1. How many people were attacked by dogs in Dorset in the calendar year January 1 to December 31, 2011?

2. How many of those attacks resulted in serious injury

3. How many of those attacks resulted in death

4. What number of dogs have been seized by Dorset Police in 2011 under section 1 of Dangerous Dogs Act 1991?

5. What number of dogs have been seized by your police force in 2011 under section 3 of Dangerous Dogs Act 1991?

6. What number of dogs have been seized in 2011 after being used in a crime?

7. How many offenders were arrested and charged in 2011 under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991?

8. How many dogs held by your police force have died or been destroyed as a result of unknown cause, illness or behavioral issues while in your care (if known please give details) in 2011?

9. What is the total cost covered by your police force, for kenneling, vet treatment, legal bills and any other associated costs for holding seized dogs under the DDA in 2011?

1. How many emergency calls Dorset Police received in the calendar year January 1 to December 31, 2011 relating to abusive comments made on Facebook.

2. How many non-emergency calls Dorset Police received in the calendar year January 1 to December 31, 2011 relating to abusive comments made on Facebook.

Please could you tell me how many schools in your area have police officers regularly at the school's site? Please give the total number of schools which had a police presence every year for the last four academic years (i.e. 2007/'08, 2008/'09, 2009/'10, 2010/'11).

If possible, it would be useful also to have the names of the schools.

Please state how many schools (all types of schools, including primary, secondary, sixth form and colleges) the police have a regular, pre-arranged 'on-site' presence. This should include, but not be limited to, police assisting with pupils at the end of the school day / police making pre-arranged appearances on the school site to assist with any kind of issues in the school, such as violence, bullying, drugs, etc. In other words, this request should cover all schools where, at some point in the last year, there has been any type of arrangement between police and schools for any type of police presence (but should not include any on-off incidents that have not been pre-arranged).

Please state:

1) How many schools, if any, police have had a presence in, in the last 12 months.

 2) Please state the names of the schools

3) For each school, please state how regular the police presence is/has been (e.g. every morning, ongoing/ once a month for 6 months, etc)

4) The type of work/support that the police provides for each of the schools listed

1. I would like to receive information regarding the fees paid by your force to mobile phone operators for data (such as subscriber call records and locations) during police investigations for the year 2010/2011. I would like to know: 

• the amount paid 
• the amount paid per mobile phone operator 
• the number of requests handled by each mobile phone operator

2. I would like to know whether you are participating in the Home Office’s pilot Central Cost Recovery Scheme in relation to requesting information from mobile phone operators (yes or no).

1. What target times have been set for responding to the following calls?

(a) Emergency
(b) Priority

(c) Routine (or similarly classified)

2. Whether these targets have been amended since May 2010?

3. What percentage of incidents were attended within stated standards in;

(a) 2009/10
(b) 2010/11
(c) 2011/12.

Since Dec 1 2011, how many raids have been made by your officers in your police service area, on scrap metal yards in connection with searches for stolen metal?

Please also provide details of the premises/business subject to the operation; the number of arrests made; the result of the arrests (e.g. what charges brought) and the current status of those arrests (e.g. on bail, awaiting trial etc); the number of police officers involved in the operation; what other agencies and organisations were involved in the operation (E.g. Network Rail, Environment Agency etc).

A breakdown of the costs for 2010 and 2011 into:

• services provided by NRPSI-registered interpreters or non NRPSI-registered interpreters (on the assumption that use of the latter group was permitted under PACE when NRPSI interpreters were not available at short notice and operational necessity required interpreters to be sourced locally); 
• the difference in hourly/job rates Dorset Police paid to NRPSI-registered interpreters compared with non NRSPI-registered interpreters;
• the number of instances of interpreting that were invoiced as the minimum call-out fee (I think this is about £99), and how many instances lasted more than the minimum call-out length.

Are there any specific interpreting figures (costs/numbers of instances) for the Heather Barnett (Danilo Restivo) case? If complete figures are not available until this financial year has been calculated, I would like to request them as soon as the figures become available.

Are there recorded instances of Dorset Police officers/staff providing ad hoc interpreting services (e.g. in custodial situations) in the last 2 years? If so, what languages?

I came across the recent story about the woman near Weymouth who discovered bones in her backyard. I was wondering how often finds like this happen and how people usually stumble across these types of discoveries?

If there are currently plans to relocate the Police Helicopter to Bournemouth Airport.

1. How many reports of counterfeit money did Dorset Police receive in the calendar year 2010?

2. How many reports of counterfeit money did Dorset Police receive in the calendar year 2011?

3. Of these, how many led to prosecution?

4. How much counterfeit money was seized by Dorset Police in the calendar year 2010?

5. How much counterfeit money was seized by Dorset Police in the calendar year 2011?

6. Of this, what is the most common denomination of counterfeit note?

Three requests regarding the Dorset Police retention of human tissue following suspicious death or homicide investigations, and the related Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) report on the Human Tissue Audit (HTA). Your requests have been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act).

We have aggregated these requests in an attempt to provide clarity and avoid confusion. Our responses are provided after each relevant question of your requests, under the heading of the date that the request was made and our local reference number.

1. Could you please supply me with your current force ‘Response’ vehicle crewing policy.

2. Could you please supply me with a copy of all the current Police Response Team shift patterns existent in your force area.

3. (a) The total number of Emergency (E) grade calls made to your force in the period 01/01/2011 until 31/12/2011 broken down by Basic Command Unit (BCU) and hour of receipt (i.e. between 01:00 – 02:00; 02:00 – 03:00 etc).

(b) The total number of Priority (P) grade calls made to your force in the period 01/01/2011 until 31/12/2011 broken down by Basic Command Unit (BCU) and hour of receipt (i.e. between 01:00 – 02:00; 02:00 – 03:00 etc).

(c) Your forces target response times or service level agreements (SLA) for these types of call.

4. (a) The Total number of Officer’s currently employed solely or predominantly on Response duties on each of your force’s Basic Command Units (BCU) 　

(b) The number of teams into which these Officers are divided

(c) Your policy on the minimum number of officers on duty at any given time on each BCU

(d)  Where this varies by hour of the day, details of the policy on minimum numbers of officers on duty at any given time of the day at each BCU.

Details of the disciplinary action taken against two of your officers as a result of the Devon and Cornwall Police investigation named Operation Reproof which began in 2002 and concluded in the Crown Court in 2006. 

• When the cases were dealt with; 
• The rank of each officer concerned; 
• On what grounds the disciplinary action was taken (e.g. gross misconduct) in each case; 
• What the result of the hearing was in each case and the punishment, if any, that was meted out; 
• In addition I would like copies of the conclusions/summary made by the senior officer who dealt with the case and the identity of that officer.

I would like to know the number of officers who have received Level 2 riot training in the last 24 months, broken down by each month, i.e. from May 2010 to May 2012 with a figure for each month.

If it is possible within the cost limit, I would also like to know who many of these officers were receiving the training for the first time.

The names of any organisation within your constabulary area acting as a third party hate crime reporting centre.

The postcodes of any organisation within your constabulary area acting as a third party hate crime reporting centre.

The contact details of any organisation within your constabulary area acting as a third party hate crime reporting centre.

The total number of reports of hate crime incidents received by your constabulary during 2010.

The total number of reports of hate crime incidents received via third party hate crime reporting centres by your constabulary during 2010.

 The total number of reports of hate crime incidents received via the True Vision website [www.report-it.org.uk] by your constabulary during 2010

Following the decision of the Supreme Court in February last year that convicted sex offenders who have been placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life can now apply to be taken off it, I would like to know the following:

Have any convicted sex offenders in your force area applied to come off the register since February 2011?

If so, how many?

And how many of these applicants have been successful and are now no longer on the register?

Of those that have been successful in coming off the register, are any checks at all still made on them by the police or any other agency?

Are you able to give any personal details about those that have been successful in coming off the register i.e. name, age, picture, details of offence for which they were placed on the register, length of sentence.

Have any of those that have come off the register been arrested, charged or convicted of any offence since coming off it?

How many sex offenders have been investigated and found to have changed their names in the past three years?

In this response please specify how they changed their names, how long a period it was before they were discovered for having changed names and what happened to them after they were discovered. If possible, please name the sex offender (name before and after)

How many sex offenders have been investigated by your force for trying to take on new identities in the past three years?

In this response please tell me what they did to take on a new identity and how long a period it was before they were discovered for having changed identity.

Please also confirm the total number who had successfully assumed new names and/or identities and how/if they did it without the police force realising.