2022/25004 - Threat to life notices

REQUEST

1. How many threat to life notices your force has issued in the last three reporting years for which figures are available? If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don't mind whether it's financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.
2. How many notices included in (1) have been issued to people aged under 18.

 

RESPONSE

 

In order to retrieve the information requested, we would need to manually check through all relevant records, such as ‘threat to life’ offences, however it is important to note a threat to life warning me be linked with various other crimes. This would exceed the 18-hour limit as it would take 5 minutes to read each record.

Within the last 12 months there have been 361 recorded ‘threat to life’ offences x 5 minutes, would equate to 30 hours of research.  Therefore, a Section 12 Excess Cost exemption has been applied.

 

 

Section 12 – Excess Cost

 

The exemption applicable to the information you have requested for this question can be found at Section 12(1) of the Act and this refusal notice is issued under Section 17.

 

Section 12(1) “does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.” 

 

In the case of a police force, the appropriate limit is set at £450, which is calculated at £25 per hour (i.e., 18 hours). Gwent Police would have to conduct a manual search to find and extract the information for this question. This would take more than 18 hours of staff time therefore we are unable to answer this question and the exemption is engaged.