Use of clairvoyants

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/24/2437

Version Date: 21/10/2024

The Criminal Justice and Performance & Analysis Departments have provided the following information. 

This request relates to the Police Force's use of psychics (by which I mean all types of psychics, clairvoyants, 'remote viewers', mediums, astrologers, mind-readers, etc.)

1. In the last three years, how many times has the police force actively engaged with a psychic for the purpose of using their services?

None

In the last three years, how many times has the force paid for the services of a psychic in relation to a criminal case?

None

In the last three years, how many times has the police force been contacted by psychics offering to help with a criminal investigation?

Performance & Analysis conducted searches on the Storm Incident database for the keywords ‘psychic’ ‘clairvoyant’ ‘mind reader’ ‘remote viewer’ and ‘astrologer’.

‘Medium’ was not included as it would return a high number of false positives.

This returned around 45 records which were manually reviewed.

3 of these were relevant to the request in the fact that assistance was being offered

2011 – 1

2022 – 2

Does the police force have any written policy regarding the use of psychics in criminal investigations? If so, please provide me with a copy.

No Policy held