This area contains some of the disclosures of information made by Dorset Police under the Freedom of Information Act. To make it easer to access the information, we have divided the information into broad subject areas.
Dorset Police receives on average fifty Freedom of Information (FOI) requests per month, and releases some information in response to the majority of these requests.
If you are thinking about submitting a request for information, we suggest that you look at the disclosure log below to see if the information you are interested in has already been disclosed.
Police costs incurred for the badger cull in Dorset during 2020 amounted to £273,121.
These costs are covered in full by Defra (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).
Badger culling is part of a Defra policy, licensed by Natural England, to carry out targeted culls in selected rural areas to eradicate Bovine Tuberculosis by 2038.