Fly tipping
30 December 2024
Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 Ref No: FOI2024/08447
I write in connection with your request for information received on 28th November. I note you seek access to the following information:
1) How many fly-tipping incidents were reported to your force in the following financial years: 2023/24, 2022/23, and 2021/22.
2) How many of these fly-tipping incidents resulted in an officer attending the scene in the following financial years: 2023/24, 2022/23, and 2021/22.
I am required by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act) to handle all requests in a manner that is blind to the identity of the requestor. Any information released in response to a request is regarded as being published and therefore, in the public domain without caveat.
Response:
Following searches conducted on the Crime recording system of the Force please see our response below:
***PLEASE NOTE***
Bedfordshire Police records incidents on our incident recording system in accordance with Home Office Counting Rules, which uses Home Office Notifiable incident codes.
There is not a HO incident code for fly tipping, so the information provided to you has been sourced from our system using a keyword search and may not be a full representation of all incidents logged for fly tipping:
Question 1
Incidents
'Fly Tipping' word search
Dates between: 1.4.2021 - 31.3.2024
|
'FLY TIPPING' word search |
2021 - 2022 |
2022 - 2023 |
2023 - 2024 |
Grand Total |
|
Fly Tipping |
113 |
81 |
96 |
290 |
|
Event |
23 |
22 |
13 |
58 |
|
Highways disruption |
16 |
11 |
18 |
45 |
|
Environmental |
25 |
11 |
8 |
44 |
|
Contact/Message/Advice |
13 |
14 |
16 |
43 |
|
Nuisance |
12 |
7 |
11 |
30 |
|
Road related offence |
3 |
2 |
4 |
9 |
|
Suspicious Package / object |
6 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
|
Other notifiable crime |
4 |
2 |
1 |
7 |
|
Incident being dealt with |
3 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
|
Police generated activity |
0 |
1 |
5 |
6 |
|
Criminal damage |
1 |
0 |
5 |
6 |
|
Concern for safety / security |
1 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
|
Crime related incident |
1 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
|
Theft from motor vehicle |
2 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
|
Hoax / abandoned call |
1 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
|
Personal - standard risk |
0 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|
Civil disputes |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Lost / found property & found PE |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Drug offences |
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
|
Animals / wildlife |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Violence against the person |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
RTC - damage only |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Sexual offence |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Grand Total |
113 |
81 |
96 |
290 |
Question 2
Incidents - Attended
'Fly Tipping' word search
Dates between: 1.4.2021 - 31.3.2024
|
Fly Tipping' word search |
2021 - 2022 |
2022 - 2023 |
2023 - 2024 |
Grand Total |
|
Fly Tipping |
24 |
20 |
25 |
69 |
|
Attended |
24 |
20 |
25 |
69 |
|
Event |
7 |
5 |
3 |
15 |
|
Highways disruption |
4 |
4 |
5 |
13 |
|
Environmental |
6 |
1 |
3 |
10 |
|
Nuisance |
2 |
2 |
4 |
8 |
|
Police generated activity |
0 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
|
Concern for safety / security |
1 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
|
Suspicious package / object |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
Drug offences |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
Criminal damage |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
Contact / message / advice |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
Civil disputes |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Violence against the person |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Other notifiable crime |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Crime related incident |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Sexual offence |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Grand Total |
24 |
20 |
25 |
69 |
The numerical data presented in this response is an un-audited snapshot of un-published data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.