2021/24753 - Physical Material

REQUEST

I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act to ask for the following information:

Q1:  Is there a designated length of time for which Gwent Police and laboratories you instruct, both internal and external, retain physical material gathered during police investigations in respect of convicted crimes? 

Q2: If there is a divergence of policy according to crime type, please provide clarification.   

(The phrase “physical material” above refers to all objects and items which are exhibited as part of both the “used material” at trial AND the “unused material”, not subsequently used at trial.)

RESPONSE