2023/25973 - Large Scale Police Protest Operations 2021-22

REQUEST

 I'm writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to ask that you please disclose to me the operation names of any large scale protest action that you have been called out to as a force over the last two calendar years (2021, and 2022).

It is only basic details of these operations I require. I'm not asking for internal documents, workings, technologies used, number of officers deployed, cost of this, or anything other than the following:

Operation name, date, the name of the group involved (this could span anything from white nationalists to environmentalists - XR, BLM, National Action, EDL, NBU, Insulate Britain, Women's Rights marches, anti-military Marches like the anti-Elbit Systems action recently, and things like this).

I'd also like to know what constitutes a "large scale operation" please. I have been made aware that forces may not be able to answer, for example, questions about smaller operations like protests of one person, so I've been advised by multiple forces that large scale operations carry a much higher chance of being answerable within cost limit.

Again, dates, and the focus of the action, and if possible (within cost limit) the amount of people arrested during these actions in the limited 24 month period is all the information I am seeking for this request.

If possible, and if it isn't exempt, I'd also like a list (if it exists in this format) of the groups that are of most interest to you regarding these large scale operations, or which exist on a list of monitored groups, again this could include any type of organisation but I'm really only looking for the bare bones basics of the most of note (top ten, or top five) groups that are of concern to your force.

RESPONSE